As a two-year member of the USG DEI Committee, I have institutional memory and I understand the vision of former chair Brian Mhando and current chair Morgan Hoang. And, I would like to continue some of their initiatives like the mapping of menstrual pads and the gender-neutral bathroom deserts on campus. In the spring semester, I plan on using these maps to work across a wide variety of departments and residential colleges to fund menstrual products in their bathroom stalls and discuss with the Princeton administration about expanding gender-neutral bathrooms in areas that are lacking. 

Furthermore, I would also love to continue our collaboration with the dining hall staff. So far, our collaboration has resulted in increasing the diversity of cuisines, perhaps notably the Native American menu with authentic student recipes. I would advocate for further expansion of these initiatives through connecting with cultural groups on campus. For example, at Hobson College–the first residential college to be named after a Black woman–I would like to work with the dining hall staff as well as student cultural organizations to expand the cultural food offerings to include afro-Carribean, African American, and African food. Moreover, I would also like to properly label food as halal in the dining halls. 

I am excited to introduce some of my own initiatives such as expanding USG-sponsored cultural events to campus in the spring semester. For the spring semester, I envision a collaboration with varsity or club athletics that hosts a tailgate-like cultural food stalls so people of all different groups can bond over food and sports. 

Another initiative that I would work on is conducting a survey in the spring semester about the hidden costs of college in order to change the policy around external scholarship usage policy, which currently mandates 1) external scholarship decrease the aid received 2) scholarships must be redeemed within the academic year in which they are received, and 3) students can only receive scholarship reimbursements during one year of their time at Princeton. Largely, the policy is due to FAFSA policy about overawarding, but a survey about the hidden costs of college could provide enough statistical evidence for the University and The Undergraduate Financial Aid and Student Employment Office to reconsider whether a sum larger than 3,500 USD or multiple award years below this sum for technology expenditures is overawarding.   

Likely, this issue will face push back from the administration, but I conducting a survey may provide us with convicing evidence for the external scholarship policy change.