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This is the official website for the GUSA Executive Campaign of Olivia Kleier and Jon Pejo. Browse through the site to Meet the Candidates, Learn About Our Platform, Policies, and Values, See Our Endorsements, Contribute to Our Platform, and even Join Our Team!
A Brief Word About Us
We are a campaign of the many, by the many, and for the many. Our team is comprised of students from different ethnic, socioeconomic, academic, and social backgrounds. We have come together as friends aware of the urgent need for new leadership in light of the new and novel crises affecting our community. Our promise is not only to respond to the problems of the day but also to ensure that the Georgetown we return to is the most equitable, inclusive, and welcoming it can be. However, as you will see, we believe this is a whole community effort, and we hope we can engage with you--collaborate with you--to accomplish our goals.
About the Candidates
Olivia Kleier
Olivia Kleier
Hello! I am Olivia (she/her/hers), a junior in the SFS majoring in Science, Technology, and International Affairs - Energy and the Environment, and minoring in Economics. I am from San Francisco, CA and went to high school in Oakland - so truly a Bay Area girl. On campus, I am a GUSA Senator for the class of 2022, was one of the Coords for this past NSO, in the Georgetown University Dance Company, on Club Volleyball, and am researching GU campus environment initiatives. Having been in GUSA for the past two years and serving as NSO coord, I recognize the current disconnect between GUSA and the student body, and I will work with you to ensure that we overcome these feelings of isolation due to the pandemic and create a community where we all feel safe and included.
We believe that Georgetown can change. When we go back, only one class will have been on campus for a full year, and at this moment, we have a unique opportunity to redefine our community values and attitudes. We can center BIPOC student voices, celebrate our cultural identity clubs by dismantling exclusive club culture, and create an inclusive community where each student knows the power of their own voice. Our administration will elevate current student advocacy projects and engage with you to address the issues you care about. This is our moment for Georgetown. Let’s build it together.
Jon Pejo
Jon Pejo
Hi friends! This is me--Jon (he/him/his)--a Junior in the College studying English and History with a minor in Creative Writing: clearly, a man of letters and "future football-playing king in space, with a moustache." Born and raised in Columbia, Maryland, I am a product of suburban American but with the soul of a city boy (think, Hello, Dolly!). On campus, I'm a (former :'() writer for 4E (The Hoya's Blog), Cornerstone Mentor, radio show host (in hiatus), President of Club Filipino, and, of course, Georgetown's Funniest Human. My most meaningful membership, however, is my role as an Orientation Advisor and Captain for New Student Orientation, the community that first gave me that sense of "home." I'm excited to meet all of you, listen to your ideas, and work together to make Georgetown a place of GOOD VIBES.
Our Commitments, Our Report Card
Our Commitments, Our Report Card
A's Are Great, But C's Get Degrees
Accountability and accessibility are our A’s because they have always been the cornerstone of GUSA Executive Administrations. Past campaigns have emphasized the weakness of GUSA in these areas and have promised to restore the university administration’s accountability and accessibility to students and GUSA’s accountability and administration to the student body. This campaign builds on those promises by making them our A’s—the things in which we aspire to be truly and recognizably excellent. Accountability and accessibility, however, are baseline assessments of any standard administration: this campaign’s promise is to go beyond the “bottom line” and raise our C’s into A’s. This campaign feels that the C’s—community, conversation, cooperation, and change—are lacking. The work this campaign will perform, even in the time leading up to the election, involves reaching out to students from all cultures and areas of interest to foster participation (community); building respectful, comfortable, and fruitful relationships between those different groups (conversation); and mobilizing that community to work together to reach those goals of inclusive community and life and active engagement with life in the community (cooperation).
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