A first-year kinesiology student will become the Student Government Association president next semester.
Jayeim Blake won the uncontested presidential race, alongside second-year graphic design student TJ Majors, who won the role of executive vice president.
First-year economics and environmental science student Minerva Stephensbailey will become vice president of public relations, student Lara Jae Gomez will become vice president of campus activities and student Jordan Booher will become vice president of outreach. All races were uncontested.
Blake, an international student from Trinidad and Tobago, said he hopes to support diversity as SGA president.
“I’m from … a multicultural island,” Blake, a goalkeeper on the Riverhawks men’s soccer team, said. “And
ever since I came to AACC, I found out that, you know, this community represents the same thing, right? I’ve seen a lot of diverse people from all over the world.”
Elections closed on April 19. The SGA will hold emergency elections to fill the two empty spots in the cabinet: vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, and vice president of finance.
Majors, who is an SGA senator, is “very excited” to be executive vice president.
“I see it as, like, an opportunity to, like, learn even more leadership,” Majors said.
Majors said it is surprising that none of the elections was contested.
“I laughed quite hard when I was putting in votes for everybody else on Monday when elections started, and, you know, there was only one person on each page of the ballot,” Majors said. “Maybe people are … too caught up with everything else to, you know, even think about SGA or running for SGA.”
Blake said he hopes to be an “approachable” president.
“If you ever see me on campus, you usually see me walk around with a smile on my face,” Blake said.