GPESA Elelctions

Understanding elections for GPESA

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Elections 2024/2025 Conclusion

Thank you for casting your vote for GPESA of the University of Calgary 2024-2025 session. Here are the new (returning) officers for the following year.

Executive Officers:

  1. Co-president – Research Education – Fabielle Cruz 
  2. Vice President, Academics – Lily Jaiqiu Cai 
  3. Vice President, Finance and Operations – Shuvo Chowdhury Rahul 
  4. Online and Professional Programs Representative – Warren Ferguson
  5. Promotions and Media Relations Officer – Alba Razieh
  6. Peer Mentor Coordinator – Brian Gilbert
  7. Secretary – Samra Karishma

EDSA Representatives (Education Specialization Areas):

  1. Adult Learning – Chima Nwachukwu 
  2. Counselling Psychology – Danielle Shinbine 
  3. Curriculum and Learning – Fiona Couillard 
  4. School and Applied Child Psychology – Alexa Rood 

2024-2025 Elections

The elections for the 2024-2025 academic year were led by our Chief Returning Officcer, Collette Quinn-Hall: collette.quinnhall@ucalgary.ca. Elections were held from May 21st through May 23rd, 2024.

 

2023-2024 Elections and By-Elections

The elections for the 2023-2024 academic year were led by Chief Returning Officers Michelle House-Kokan (michelle.housekokan@ucalgary.ca) and Abigail Williams (abigail.williams@ucalgary.ca). Elelctions took place in April 2023, and by-elections took place August 2023.

2022-2023 Elections

The elections for the 2022-2023 academic year were led by Chief Returning Officer Andrea Herzog: andrea.herzog@ucalgary.ca. Elections took place in March 2022.

GPESA Elections Q&A

GPESA election dates vary depending on the latest bylaws requirements, though elections will always take place sometime at the end of the winter semester or beginning of the spring semester.

All members can vote! If you get our emails, you are an eligible voting member.

Reach out to the current GPESA team at gpesa@ucalgary.ca to express your interest and/or contact the executive currently in the role you'd like to apply for. Share your interest and get ideas from them about running.

Typically, the Chief Returning Officer (CRO) will send our a survey requesting information about you and the position you'd like to run for. That's it! The CRO handles the rest. See latest bylaws for details about campaigning, and reach out to CRO with any concerns or questions once you're nominated. 

We always have a difficult time finding CROs. You can expect an email from GPESA around February calling for CRO volunteers, but feel free to reach out to gpesa@ucalgary.ca at ANY time if you're interested in serving as CRO. If there is more than one applicant for CRO, the CRO will be selected following the protocol outlined in our latest bylaws.