Engage in MSA's Election Week Events!
Presidential Debate, hosted by Mizzou Student Media – Monday, March 4th, 5:30pm, Wrench Auditorium
Kick off MSA’s 2024 Spring Election Week with the Presidential Debate! Learn how your future student leaders plan to serve the student body in the 2024 MSA Presidential Debate hosted by Mizzou Student Media (MSM)!
Have a question you want to ask the candidates? Submit it here!
Election Results Announcement – Friday, March 8th, 3:30pm, The Shack
Hear about the election results announced in person by our Board of Election Commissioners Chair in The Shack!
A Ballot Initiative to Seek the Student Body's Opinion on Off-Campus Dining
MSA leaders and Campus Dining Services are seeking to assess student interest in the creation of a prospective off-campus dining plan or a change to current dining plans to include off-campus establishments.
After conversations with CDS leadership and within MSA Senate Committees, the Senate has passed Senate Bill 63-44 to add a question regarding off-campus dining options to the Spring Ballot!
A Ballot Initiative On the Continuation of the Mizzou Student Media Fee
Mizzou Student Media (MSM) is an organization consisting of MU’s student-led radio station, newspaper, and podcast network: KCOU 88.1 FM, The Maneater, and the MSM Podcast Network. Those media entities are operated and led completely by MU students, producing content that is editorially independent of the University and that covers diverse campus issues and topics for the students of MU. MSM is open to all students and provides hands-on learning and leadership opportunities for its staff members in media careers, including news reporting, writing, editing, and producing; news, music and sports radio hosting, DJing, and production; podcast development and production; and social media, newsletter, and digital marketing.
The Mizzou Student Media Fee has reached its expiration after its approval in 2020 and must come before the student body for a renewal vote, including an initiative to adopt the fee as permanent, similar to the ASUM Fee and the Sustainability Fee. MSA Senate has voted to add two ballot questions regarding the MSM Student Fee.
MSA Executive Slates
Each year, interested students are able to file for a slate to run in the MSA Spring Election consisting of a Presidential candidate, a Vice-Presidential candidate, and a campaign manager. Slates must obtain 500 unique student signatures before they are verified and allowed to campaign.
The MSA President and Vice-President act as the top leaders of the MU undergraduate student body. They garner student feedback and translate it into conversations with Mizzou administration and campus projects.
Slates can campaign from February 19th through the close of the ballot on March 7th. Learn more about this year’s slates below!
Presidential Slate
All In 4 Mizzou
Clay Van Eaton
Presidential Candidate
Emily Brockmann
Vice-Presidential Candidate
Presidential Slate
Revive the Roar
Kayla Modacure
Presidential Candidate
Olivia Prudhomme
Vice-Presidential Candidate
MSA Senatorial Candidates
The Senate is comprised of 80 total seats, with 50 reserved for Academic Senators. Within those 50, seats are allocated based on the proportion of each academic college’s annual enrollment. Each semester, students are able to apply to fill any empty seats for their academic college.
Academic Senators will write and pass legislation, interact directly with administrators, be a voice for their peers in their academic college, and help advocate to improve the student experience. Academic Senator terms are held for a year, during which Senators play a crucial role in the student Senate.
Candidates can campaign from February 19th through the close of the ballot on March 7th. Learn more about this semester’s candidates below!
Senatorial Candidates
College of Arts and Science (A&S)
Vishvi Aurora
(she/her) Vishvi is a Junior majoring in Biological Sciences and Physics, has been actively engaged with MSA since her freshman year. Over the years, she has taken on various roles such as At-Large Senator, Academic Senator, and PR Coordinator for the Senate. Additionally, Vishvi is a member of the Academic Affairs committee in MSA and actively participates in the A&S Student Council.
Kamerin Fry
(she/her) Kamerin from a freshman from Kansas City, MO studying Biological Sciences with a double minor in Chemistry and Philosophy. She is also a member of the College of Arts and Science Student Council and she likes to read in her free time.
Aidyn Gleason
(they/she) Aidyn is a sophomore from outside of St. Louis, majoring in Black Studies and Sociology with minors in Women and Gender Studies and Political Science. They are an incumbent MSA Academic Senator, an Executive member of Four Front (Mizzou’s multicultural student council), and a member of the Legion of Black Collegians (LBC), where they’re currently the Political Action Committee Delegate for the Big XII Conference on Black Student Government.
Cody Jenkins
(he/him) Cody is a second year Mizzou student studying Political Science (Pre-Law), Public Administration and Policy, and Economics. Cody has been an active member of MSA and Mizzou Moot Court for the past two years. In addition to his campus activity, he is also an advocate and lobbyist for the Missouri AfterSchool Network.
Logan Kuykendall
(he/him) Logan is studying Public Administration and currently serves on the Legislative Cabinet as Senate Clerk and a previous Engineering Senator. With two years of experience, Logan is running as Senator for the College of A&S. As an Engineering Senator, he secured $75k+ in MSA funding for Engineering student organizations and facilitated the first successful collaboration between MSA and Engineering Student Council in years. If elected, Logan pledges to bring proactive and tangible change to the College of A&S.
Kaylie Lineback
(she/her) Kaylie Lineback is a first year student studyingh Political Science & Public Administration and Policy from Saint Louis, MO. She is a member of Alpha Chi Omega, the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, and the MU Women’s Center's staff
Molly Machione
(she/her) Molly is a first year here at Mizzou, studying Biology with an emphasis in Pre-Medicine. She is is originally from Baltimore, Maryland and moved to Kansas City in June of 2022. She’s a part of the Newman Center, Honors College, pre-medicine society, and hopefully PhiDE soon!
Trey Trapani
(he/him) Trey is a sophomore studying Constitutional Democracy and French from Wildwood, MO with four cats: Kiwi, Bowie, Quincy, and Corky. He serves as the Missouri Debate Union's General Secretary, Kinder Institute Undergraduate Society's Chair of Applied Constitutional Democracy, and the Current Senate External Affairs Chair. Really, Trey is just an old chunk of coal looking to be a diamond someday.
Senatorial Candidates
Trulaske College of Business
Pb Branson
(they/them) Pb is a sophomore studying Business to go into business law. Their hometown is Lee's Summit Missouri close to Kansas City. Currently around campus, Pb is involved in Mizzou DECA as well as current At-Large senator in MSA.
Spencer Dickey
(he/him) Spencer is a Junior in the Business School majoring in Accounting with a minor in Economics. He is originally from Raymore, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. He has been a member of the Senate for a full year now and he’s also involved in the Missouri Real Estate Club as well as the professional club, Beta Alpha Psi.
Alexander Duckwitz
(he/him) Alex is a freshman from Kansas City, Missouri! If elected to the MSA senate, his primary goal would be to increase the financial and informational aid that MSA extends to clubs and organizations and work to make the Engage app faster and better. He would also strive to hear the issues of the Trulaske College of Business and take real action about what he hears in the Senate.
Senatorial Candidates
College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (CAFNR)
Caleb Simpson
(he/him) Caleb is currently a first-year student from Springfield, Missouri, majoring in Agribusiness - Public Policy. He plans to obtain a law degree and work in Washington, D.C. in government affairs with an agricultural group. Simpson is active as Missouri FFA State Vice President but remains involved in campus organizations. Caleb wants to leave this campus having made students feel that, no matter their interests, they have a place and role at Mizzou. Go Tigers!
Single Candidate
Senatorial Candidates
College of Engineering
Akbarjon Kamoldinov
(he/him) Akbarjon (Akbar) is an international freshman student from Uzbekistan. Akbar is majoring in Electrical Engineering and volunteers with robotics & sensing research.
Single Candidate
Senatorial Candidates
Missouri School of Journalism
Kate Formhals
(she/her) Kate is a junior from Joliet, IL, majoring in Journalism and Political Science. She has been a part of MSA for the past four semesters and she has thoroughly enjoyed being a senator. On campus, Kate is also a member of MSA's Social Justice Affairs Committee, a volunteer dance teacher for Mizzou Center Stage, a student ambassador for Mizzou Outreach, and a member of the J-School's PRSSA club.
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