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Meeting the new representatives: Class of 2020

By Michelle Chung ’20

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With every new class comes new minds, ideas and leaders that contribute to the greatness that is the Hamilton community. Recently, the Class of 2020 elected six outstanding students to join the Student Assembly and help the campus grow even further.
Jordan D’Addio, who grew up in Verona, New Jersey (but has lived in Portland, Oregon since her freshman year of high school), was recently elected as President and has shown great enthusiasm to assist in bringing the college community to success.
As a past member of multiple student councils in high school (including one dealing with gender equality), a leader of Junior State of America (which works to fight voting apathy among the millennial generation), and the captain of her high school’s women’s varsity swim team, she is no stranger to leadership and involvement.
“I’m most excited to represent our class in Student Assembly, along with the rest of our class officers and to make positive changes wherever I can,” said D’Addio. “Two of my goals for the year are to, one: be transparent with our class about what is going on in Student Assembly and to ensure that any desires or concerns are heard and addressed, and two: that we have a few awesome events that pull the class together despite all our busy schedules and get people introduced to others they may not meet otherwise.”
The newly-elected Treasurer for Student Assembly is Ben Katz from New York. Ever since arriving to Hamilton and seeing how passionate the Student Assembly members were about the campus and its members, Katz has shown extreme interest in doing the same for his community. He’s shown the same enthusiasm for leading the class to prosperity as he did as Vice President of Model United Nations in high school and in many other leadership roles.
Alongside D’Addio and Katz are the four newly-elected class representatives, including Ishan Bhatia, Cesar Guerrero Domènech, Julian Perrico and Nanaka Suzuki.
Bhatia, a native of Boston, Massachusetts says, “I’m most excited about improving the campus community at Hamilton in any little way we can, and I’m going to be focusing on trying to improve the food situation, as well as the health and safety of kids on campus (since I’m in the Health and Safety Committee).”
Domènech has shown similar excitement since being elected, mentioning, “I’m most excited about helping make the ‘Hamilton Experience’ better for our class and also being someone who people can go talk to to have their voice and opinions be heard in the assembly and in the decision making process. I’m going to focus on opening up the lines of communication between the SA and the student body so that everyone knows what’s happening in terms of decision-making, and I also would like to focus on creating new and innovative proposals to help make our lives as first year students better.”
Suzuki realized how compassionate and amazing the members of Student Assembly were after attending their first meeting as well, and wants to be the same sort of student for others.
“Now that I am a Class Reprsentative and part of the Student Affairs committee, I am excited to start listening to people’s concerns and promoting an even more positive atmosphere on campus. My goal as of now is to ensure that every student receives equal opportunity to express their concerns and have those concerns be addressed,” she said.
“As Hamilton becomes a more and more diverse school, I want to ensure that we provide a quality experience for each and every student, and not forget to do so in the midst of the increasing diversity. I am truly thankful for the opportunity to be a part of such an amazing organization, and excited to help continue making Hamilton a better place for all!”

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