Democracy & Development

Sasha King-Smith

Vice President for Democracy & Development

She/Her

As VP Democracy & Development, I will be working closely with all areas of the student body to make sure they are listened to and represented by the SU.

This will involve working with SU outlets to ensure they keep students as the focus of everything they do and maintaining high democratic standards on students' political engagement with the SU by making the channels for engagement as accessible as possible.

Course:
Politics BA - graduating this year

Hometown:
Sheffield

Fun fact about me:
I fell down a waterfall! Thankfully I was okay!

My role and what I hope to achieve this year: 
As VP Democracy & Development, I hope to:

• Build positive relationships between students and the SU
• Show students that anyone can get involved with SU politics and SU life

My Goals

Development

• Relaunching the Better Buses Campaign with Enaya.
  • Asking the University to support us more actively.
• SU physical spaces: lib room + green room
• SU’s engagement + outreach
  • Promote what we’re already doing in student friendly ways.
  • Democracy and Devlopment Instagram
  • Ensure students know what's happening in SU governance spaces
  • Promote student voice through work w/ wider Student Networks (NUS primarily)
• Sustainability projects
  • Warwick Growers: let's get it moving
  • Sustainable sponsorship policy (w/ Naomi)
  • Work with/ EEO on areas of joint priority
  • Support Uni efforts directly through communication efforts

Democracy

• Publicise all parts of democratic processes but especially ASVs and elections.
• Make information on who/what's being voted for available earlier + in more student friendly ways.
• Ensure updates from Council & Forums are available as quickly as possible.

& to generally support efforts to improve student welfare and life, recognising that this is vital for any efforts to ask students to engage in democratic processes (as well as valuing it inherently!)