Running for: Admin Pro Representative

Job title & department: Academic Success Coordinator and Instructor, Anthropology & Geography

Motivation: My name is Keri Canada and I’ve worked at CSU for 12 years as an Academic Success Coordinator in the College of Liberal Arts, and I also teach in the Department of Anthropology and Geography. I’ve served as the Admin Pro rep on the OC for the past year and would be thrilled to continue working more closely with our union. Last year I surveyed Admin Pros on campus about feelings of belonging and community, and I’ve overwhelmingly heard this group of employees feel overworked, ignored, underpaid, and underappreciated. Our Admin Pro membership has grown substantially this past year but we still have a lot of work to do. I’d love to continue to represent you in the Admin Pro seat on UCW’s Organizing Committee to help effect real change in terms of recognition, voice, and compensation.

Running for: Grad Worker Representative

Job title & department: Grad Worker, Sociology

Motivation: I’m a 2nd year PhD student and GTA in the Department of Sociology where I also received my MA. My research uses decolonial methods to examine how colonial, social, political, and economic forces lead to the prevalence of TB! This semester I have participated in UCW-CSU’s fall organizing efforts, been working on organizing my department, and will soon begin working with others to improve our onboarding process. Along with increasing grad memberships, I hope to begin working towards standardizing GTA workloads across and within departments. Additionally, I care deeply about increasing stipends and improving benefits, so grad students no longer must juggle multiple jobs, while trying to fit in research time. We can make radical changes to CSU and I hope you consider letting me be your voice!

Running for: Grad Worker Representative

Job title & department: Grad Worker, Soil and Crop Science

Motivation: I joined UCW-CSU in the summer of 2024 and feel honored and proud to be part of this growing movement. I joined because I felt a sense of duty to do so; my colleagues fought for and won the waiving of graduate student fees and I needed to give back and join the fight. I deeply look forward to our next campaign and feel inspired by the conversations I've already been able to have with my colleagues across campus. I believe we can show every worker at CSU the power and benefit of a strong union. 

I also believe there has never been a time so critical to build solidarity among workers from different walks of life like we see at our university. As an involved and passionate graduate student, I am excited for the opportunity to do more to further our mission and get workers what we deserve.

Running for: Grad Worker Representative

Job title & department: Grad Worker, Anthropology & Geography 

Motivation: Hello, I'm Nona! This past year I've had the pleasure of serving on the Organizing Committee, where I've been actively involved with day-to-day and long-term planning efforts for our union. It would be an honor to continue supporting our union as a member on the OC. 

Since joining UCW-CSU in 2023, I have served as the chair for the graduate workers caucus and I've participated in organizing activities, such canvassing, phone/textbanking, department mapping, and planning meetings and events. 

A large part of how I view this role is connecting members to the various leadership and organizing opportunities across our planning and action efforts. Let's center the amazing strengths and passions of our union members as we build our campaigns and achieve our goals!

Running for: Non Tenure Track Faculty Representative

Job title & department: Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Motivation: After more than twenty years working in higher education I have become deeply familiar with the struggles of faculty, graduate, and administrative workers. As an active UCW member for the last two years I have gotten to know the amazing people who constitute the union and am eager to contribute my time, energy, and administrative experience to help build future UCW-CSU campaigns.

Running for: Non Tenure Track Faculty Representative

Job title & department: Assistant Teaching Professor, English

Motivation: I have served as the NTTF representative on the Organizing Committee for the past year.

Running for: Tenure Track Faculty Representative

Job title & department: Associate Professor, Music, Theater & Dance

Motivation: For the past several years, I have been working to develop our union. Faculty and staff do the work of the university, and we should be the ones running it. Together, we can make CSU an institution we are proud of.