I'm a fourth year PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and I've been building CGSU since my first year in 2022. I was an active organizer and voice in my department during our election to unionize, and I am extremely proud to have been part of the team that won us a union with 96% of grads voting yes. I was a member of our first bargaining committee, where I bottom lined the fight for the protections in our Workload article. I also educated the cis members of our bargaining committee on the standards of healthcare transgender graduate workers deserve so we could fight as a unified front to win them in our Medical Benefits article. I continue this fight today alongside other members of the Build / Activate / Mobilize slate  - Andrea Cicirello, Max Fan, Ewa Nizalowska and I are all founding members of CGSU's Trans Rights Action Committee. Since leaving the bargaining committee, I've taken a more on-the-ground role as a steward in engineering. As a steward, I've helped grads access transition funding to find a new lab, fought against unjust terminations after some advisors weaponized "poor academic progress," and was a part of the team (along with Jenna Marvin and Stephan Wagner) that disciplined Cornell's Student Disability Services office into allowing disability accommodations for our jobs. I've acted as the lead steward on several step 1 grievance meetings, so I've had up-close-and-personal experiences with the strategies Cornell is using to divide graduate workers and undermine our union.

Armed with these experiences, I am re-running for the position of delegate at large as a part of the Build / Activate / Mobilize slate. If re-elected, I will continue to speak up for the needs of our union and our industry at any national or regional UE meetings. This is precisely what I did during the 2025 UE national convention. I spoke extensively on the ways Cornell was violating our contract and testing our union power, and warned other grad locals to be prepared for their bosses to use a similar playbook. I spoke on the need to end the crisis in higher education and push back against the US government's attacks on our community and academic freedoms. In the UE's organizing committee, I modified language in the UE's two-year organizing plan on the need to keep our seasoned organizers in the labor movement after we graduate. Also at convention, I helped build up the UE - I gave advice to newly affiliated unions on bargaining and reconnected with Mexican labor leaders who I met on a UE worker exchange in 2024.

The role of the delegate at large is a serious one that is tied deeply to our union democracy. The meetings that delegates attend and vote at concern the administration of our national affiliate and the labor movement at large. If re-elected, I would be honored to accept the responsibility of not only representing any democratically decided position of our local, but also for bringing the magic and the energy that makes CGSU special to the labor movement at large.