Platform

This is a running list of topics that I will strive to discuss with the student, faculty, and staff that comprise Community Council. I will bring the outcome of these conversations to the table of the Student Government Senate. Please contact me with ideas that you want to see represented in my campaign. 

Developing outreach approaches that collect the experiences and needs of the staff body at Middlebury and building a stronger staff emergency fund.

Promoting the hiring of mental health counselors who identify as femme, of color, and/or queer to improve the care of student of all backgrounds and lived experiences. 

Working with Parton Health Center and Health and Wellness Education to implement a wider variety of life skills courses and to provide group therapy/alternative opportunities for healing. 

Continuing community wide conversations regarding the grading system at Middlebury College to evaluate its equity and explore ways in which it may be improved. 

Collecting ideas and suggestions for the implementation of an LGBTQIA+ Center on campus in order to unify the members of Queer and Trans People of Color, The Trans Affinity Group, and Queer & Allies. 

Collaborating with the Civil Rights and Title IX Office to find ways to better support survivors of sexual violence on campus.

Exploring ways to implement inclusive sexual health education into the orientation experience for first-years. 

Working with the Middlebury Residential Life Team to increase student common spaces in conjunction to conversations surrounding a new student center. 

Analyzing ways in which the institution falls short in supporting low-income and first generation students and better publicizing available resources that Middlebury currently provides to the community.

Incorporating conversations on inclusion in the Residential Life Curriculum to create a comfortable living environment and accepting culture for students of all backgrounds at Middlebury College. 

Converting more restrooms to a gender inclusive system and placing menstrual products in all bathroom spaces.

Increasing restorative justice programs on campus and shifting the judicial process away from a punitive system. 

Including the voices of students from a variety of cognitive and physical abilities in conversations surrounding accessibility. 

Providing faculty and staff with free entry to dining halls for all three meals of the day to increase casual interactions and strengthen bonds between students and their mentors. 

Decolonizing the curriculum of all academic departments. 

Lowering the financial burden created by student expenses such as the purchasing of textbooks. 

Looking for additional sustainability measures that Middlebury College can adopt beyond the Energy 2028 plan, especially in the dining halls.

Creating space for more conversations to resolve conflict between community members; potential topics being the destruction and vandalism of property and students' waste of dining hall materials. 

Reviving the Hebrew Program and diversifying the languages offered during the academic school year. 

Expanding the community of social houses with themes that engage more of the student body. 

Ensuring an accessible student employment process that successfully hires all students with work study in their financial aid package. 


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