Kennesaw State’s Student Government Association held its first meeting under the leadership of newly appointed President Carly Keller where nine student applicants elected to both the executive board and senate seat positions.
Keller conducted interviews and met with applicants before the SGA meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. to fill her executive board positions and empty senate seats.
The positions that were filled during this meeting included the director of procedural operations, director of communications, secretary, senate lead of Marietta, senator for non-traditional students, senator for the Coles College of Business, senator for the College of Architecture and Construction Management, senator for the College of Computing Software and Engineering and senator for American minorities.
Bri Burleson-Williams became the new director of procedural operations, a crucial position necessary for the continuance of the impeachment proceedings involving SGA Vice President Masood Salaam, Treasurer Stephen Harr and Senate Lead of the Marietta campus Soham Bapat.
In lieu of several resignations during the week of Jan. 13, Jessica Watkins was elected director of communications, and Emma Toor was appointed as the new secretary. Anthony Henry was appointed as the new senate lead for the Marietta campus.
Kaitlin Maginnis took her place as senator of non-traditional students, and Ashley Hale became senator of Coles College of Business — just as Keller had been appointed by the then-sitting president in 2018.
Hala Alfalih was elected the new senator for the College of Architecture and Construction Management, and Harriett Haisty became senator of the College of Computing Software and Engineering. First time applicant Bisma Hussain was approved to take her seat as senator of American minorities.
Keller said that she fulfilled her first order of business as the president after occupying all vacancies within her executive board and senate seat positions.
The SGA invites the KSU community to come out and meet the new president on Feb. 4 from 12-3 p.m. in the university rooms of the James V. Carmichael Student Center and Feb. 7 from 3-5 p.m. in the Student Center lobby of the Marietta campus.
