New DSC Graduate Student Co-Chairs Elected for 2024-2026!

🎉The new DSC co-chairs for the 2024-2026 terms are Ariel Li and Carol Lu! 🎉

They will be replacing Rachel Song and Z Ferguson, who have been co-chairs since 2022.

Jovani Azpeitia was a co-chair for the previous year and will stay on to lead the team!

Earlier this summer, students of the Psychology Department voted for the 2024-2026 DSC graduate student co-chairs. Voting closed on Tuesday, May 21. Among the four nominees, two emerged as the new co-chairs: Ariel Li and Carol Lu!  

Ariel leads the DSC blog where Carol is an editor; Carol also on the virtual recruitment team. Read more about them here. 

They will be replacing Rachel and Z, who have been co-chairs since 2022. Read their virtual interview in the new Summer 2024 article here.

What is a graduate student co-chair and how are they elected? The graduate student co-chairs play an important role in facilitating the different teams of the Diversity Steering Committee (read more about these teams here). The co-chairs are elected once every two years, and each co-chair will serve two-year terms while they are on the team. These co-chairs are first nominated by peers. All graduate students as well as DSC members are given a week to vote by ranking the top two (or three, depending on how many co-chairs needs to be elected in a given year) choices. 

This will be Ariel and Carol's 5th quarter working with the DSC. They are both looking forward for the exciting new (and old) projects from the DSC!

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