The referendums that created the Financial Assistance Fund require the bursaries to be available to all UBC students, but UBC does not make them available to international students. Additionally, the AMS currently has over a million dollars in unspent bursary money. As President, I will ensure that unspent money is used to increase bursaries, and will advocate to the university to expand bursaries for international students.

As President, I will propose changes to increase mental health coverage to $1500 from $1250.

I will also work with the VP Finance to explore options for either a mix-and-match or an opt-in/opt-out extended health care plan model to ensure students who need higher coverage are able to access their healthcare needs.

As President, I will create an AMS Foundation to allow the AMS to fundraise and collect food donations to support the food bank, bursaries, and other affordability supports.

As President, I will advocate to:

• Change the tuition allocation model (TAM) to increase the percentage of tuition going to financial support and amend LR10 (the Financial Aid Policy) to introduce needs based aid for continuing international students.
• Renegotiate the unspent millions of dollars in endowed awards towards new needs-based funding.
• Oppose tuition increases and ensure tuition is fair and transparent.
• Create more graduate student-specific financial supports (separate from funding packages) and introduce minimum funding packages for research-based masters programs.

As President, I will advocate for:

• An increase of food security initiative (FSI) funding to $1.2 million a year from $800k.
• The creation of a Provincial Student Union Food Security grant to provide student unions across BC funding to staff food security projects.
• Additional external or internal funding that will allow all members of the AMS full access to the food bank.

• Allocate 20k a year from the Sustainability Projects Fund in additional funding for student-groups running locally-based sustainable food security initiatives such as Sprouts Produce Market or Roots on the Roof.
• Work with the fee-receiving food security groups to spend the reserves of the Sustainable Food Access Fund on capital projects to increase space and capacity.
• Work with the Resource Groups to explore constituting a Resource Group focused on food security at UBC.

I will create a joint AMS-GSS committee with voting membership of each student-run group that receives food security funding through FSI that must meet before the AMS and GSS can send an allocation to the UBC FSI Committee. I will also work with these groups to ensure that the FSI allocations are sent in a more timely manner.

Currently there is only one staff member responsible for all subsidiary room bookings, and the accounting and finance teams aren't large enough to properly support our clubs and constituencies. As President, I will hire an additional full-time staff member to improve the speed of room bookings and reimbursements. I will also work with the VP Admin to change committee policy to optimize the processes to prevent any of the current unnecessary challenges caused by operational inefficiencies.

I will work across AMS Executive portfolios, including Presidential, Administration, and Finance, to create combined workflows that will increase email response times for AMS subsidiaries looking for support.

The AMS's constituencies are a vital part of its operations and the overall student experience. As President, I will work to ensure that smaller undergraduate societies and student associations are given the financial and logistical support needed to fully meet the needs of their important work, including providing each constituency with an AMS credit card, not just those who spend over $10,000 a month.

As President, I will utilize my recurring meetings with UBC's President, VP Students, and other administrators to discuss and support constituency advocacy, and work with the VP AUA to closer align the advocacy of the AMS with our undergraduate societies and student associations.

I will overhaul the executive training courses and provide in-person training events for club, constituency, and resource group executives.

I will work with Council to open the Nest 24/7 during exam periods and approve a renovation to improve wifi connectivity and increase study space by renovating underutilized areas.

I will work to move Block Party away from the headliner model that has led to low turnout and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, moving to a concert-style event with more local talent, utilizing student groups such as Blank Vinyl Project and the Calendar. This would allow the AMS to lower ticket costs, decrease losses, and sell food and alcohol at Block Party for cheaper.

Working with the VP Student Life portfolio and UBC, I will expand orientations and welcome back programming. I will work with UBC, AMS clubs, and Constituencies on an expanded mental health week constituency support

I will conduct a Business Review and a Staffing and Organization Review to ensure our businesses and other departments meet the needs and expectations of students, including making sure affordability is a priority and ensuring that there is active student consultations for all major decisions related to our businesses. Additionally, using an already approved student fee, I will work with UBC to create an AMS Brewery.

I will advocate for UBC and the government to fund more student housing projects, and to ensure people living in student housing are afforded the same protections as under the Residential Tenancy Act, including eviction notices, rent increase caps, and maximum damage deposits.

I will work with the VP External to ensure that the entire Society is engaged in continuing advocacy for the Skytrain to UBC and other increased transit support.

I will work with the VP AUA and the University to build a centralized testing facility for concessions and self-scheduled exams and an exam and syllabi database.

As President, I will work with the VP Finance to amend AMS Policy FN1 (Investments) to divest from genocide, human rights abuses, and weapons manufactures; strengthen requirements for climate divestment; and to require the AMS to regularly publish a list of it's investments.

I will advocate for UBC to divest endowment and pension fund and to cut ties with universities complicit in genocide and human rights abuses.

I will also bring forward a motion to propose the AMS endorse and sign the Apartheid-Free Communities pledge.

I currently sit on the working group reviewing the AMS Equity Action Plan. Through that work, it has become clear that the AMS has done very poorly in accomplishing the goals set out in the plan, often falling further behind from where they started. We need to finish the review and get to work as soon as possible, and ensure that there is the proper dedicated staffing to complete the work.

As President, I will continue the work to build a lasting relationship with the ISS, including ensuring the successful rollout of the updated indigenous finance guidelines.

The AMS also needs to reach outside of the AMS. Over the last few years, I've served on UBC's AVP Indigenous Affairs Hiring Committee, built strong relationships with Musqueam, including Elders and the Chief and Council. What I've seen through this work is that the AMS needs to be doing more to advance reconciliation at UBC and to build relationships and partnerships with Musqueam.