The Roosevelt Institution
School: University of California, San Diego
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University of California, San Diego
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| Login Email: | ksamia(AT)ucsd.edu |
Policy interests: Diversity, race, and opportunity, Education, Human rights, Immigration, Political strategy, Sexuality and LGBTQ issues, The media
I am currently the Thurgood Marshall Collehe Junior Senator for the Assciated Students Council at UC San Diego (ASUCSD)...all that means is that I put up with a lot of useless bureacracy ^_^ It seems trivial, but someone from the progressive movement of UCSD needs to be there. Speaking of the progressive movement at UCSD, I'm a co-founder (along with my super progressive friends) of the Center for Social Progress; a new organization with the goal harmonizing and bringing together progressive organizations and individualsto form a more cohessive movement on campus. Other organziations I have been a part of include Queer People of Color (QPOC), in which I became thhe QPOC representative to the Student Afformative Action Committee (SAAC); a 30-year committee that represents the manifestaion of the coalitions between MEChA (Moviemiento Estudiantes Chicano/a de Atzlan), Kaibiagang Philipino, The Black Student Union, The Asian Pacific Islander Association, and Queer People of Color. Through SAAC I was elected to be the SAAC Representative to ASUCSD.
I am currently working with other organizers to start a new progressive publication (The Collective) that will function as a medium through which minority communities can share their voice with UCSD against the conservative, hate-speech ridden publications on campus. I wouldn't be anywhere without Preston, Shannon, Cecilia, and Noah; my closest friends and fellow organizers.
Feel free to contact me anytime!