Meet the new SGA and SMU executive boards

SGA’s Renee Waller and SMU’s Carly Micheal hire new members to build their Fall 2019 board.

Micah Kim, Managing Editor • April 4, 2019

Meet the new SGA and SMU executive boards

Photo courtesy of Photo by Thecla Li/ THE CHIMES

As Biola approaches the end of 2019’s spring semester, the Student Government Association and the Student Missionary Union have officially put new leaders in place to serve in several key positions for the 2019-2020 school year. Both the SGA and SMU presidents are hopeful their new hires can carry on the hardworking legacy of the 2018-2019 school year’s leadership.

SGA

SGA president-elect and junior political science major Renee Waller and SGA senior vice president-elect and sophomore political science major Seth Gladysz have hired four fellow students to fill out SGA’s six-member executive board. In an email to the Chimes, Waller expressed her excitement and gratitude for the new members.

“Seth and I could not be more grateful and humbled to work with such a talented group of people,” Waller said. “Each one of them has an incredible work ethic and drive that will propel them to execute their creative vision for their respective positions. From more budget transparency to different marketing techniques, they are already brainstorming and going above the call of duty to make positive changes through their positions.”

SGA’S 2019-2020 EXECUTIVE BOARD

Senior Vice President: Sophomore political science major Seth Gladysz
Vice President of Finance, Tech and Human Relations: Freshman computer science major Thomas (Joshua) Burgess
Vice President of Administration [shared with SMU]: Sophomore public relations major Julia Alvarez
Vice President of Community Relations: Sophomore business administration major Christina (Jeeyune) Lee
Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion: Junior business administration major Caleb Strauss

SMU

Meanwhile, SMU president and junior business administration major Carly Micheal hired nine new members for the upcoming school year’s SMU board of directors. In an email, Micheal conveyed her enthusiasm for new opportunities to further develop and cultivate the new era of SMU.

“I am ecstatic about this next year. We have an incredible board of directors who are passionate, prayerful, faithful, and desire excellence in all that they do,” Micheal said. “We are all excited about our newly hired staff, and are expectant to see what the Lord will do through SMU this year! My heart is filled with gratitude for this beautiful gift of an awesome team.”

SMU’S 2019-2020 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Vice President of SMU: Junior accounting major Joey Cohen
Vice President of Office Administration [shared with SGA]: Sophomore public relations major Julia Alvarez
Global Missions Director: Junior business marketing major Colton Stoody
Local Missions Director: Junior biblical studies major Joe Lee
Missions Conference Co-director: Junior kinesiology and Christian ministries major Josh Saucy
Missions Conference Co-director: Sophomore international business major Brynn Fieldhouse
Marketing and Communication Director: Sophomore studio arts major Maddie Miller
Human Relations Director: Sophomore public relations major Bridget Gillespie
Finance Controller: Freshman accounting major Danielle Georgia

Editor’s note: All class distinctions represent the student’s class during the 2018-19 academic year.

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Micah Kim, Managing Editor

Micah Kim is a senior journalism major who loves Radiohead, produces music, and admires people that can do a perfect backflip. Born in Pennsylvania, having South Korean blood in my pulsing veins and hacking my way through family missions in China, life had been full of complex colors that I could not name. Finding ways to express my way out of the constant stress I was in was always full of music until I found writing as my new set of crayons. Fortunately, I had one of the most amazing opportunities to explore my writing at The Chimes for about two years going from News Staff Writer to News Editor. Now as Managing Editor, I get to be involved with a more wide variety of journalistic skill sets like photography and design. I hope as an international multimedia journalist, I’ll be able to lead and guide our newspaper to become more diversely cultured and opinionated. Other than writing, I constantly put effort into tasting distinct music. Yet, my all time favorite band is and will be Radiohead. If you guys don’t enjoy Radiohead, too bad. You’re missing out.