Four students have submitted a bid for the position of ASUC president. The ASUC president is tasked with numerous roles on campus including representing the UC Berkeley student body. Moreover, the president serves as the primary connection between campus administration and the ASUC. As chief representative of the ASUC, they are also in charge of implementing an Advocacy Agenda voted on by the ASUC Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Read the full profiles on the candidates below.<\/p>\n
Junior Abdullah Memon is running for ASUC president to \u201creimagine how the ASUC serves the student body.\u201d Memon\u2019s campaign prioritizes basic needs, equitable professional development and student strikes and academic freedom. Memon has also been endorsed by the East Asian Caucus.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cI (understand) the importance of using the ASUC as a resource for students like me who are navigating systems that were not built for us, who were navigating a university that, you know, wasn\u2019t really built for faces like ours and for communities like ours,\u201d Memon said.<\/p>\n
Formerly Latine and QT+-endorsed ASUC Senator and junior Carlos Gonz\u00e1lez is running independently for ASUC president with a campaign centered around \u201cdoing the hard work.\u201d He said he is currently endorsed by the Women and Nonbinary Caucus and the Southeast Asian Caucus.<\/p>\n
\u00a0His mother used to tell him to \u201csiempre ayudar cuando puedes,\u201dwhich means to \u201calways help when you can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yuhee Lefkowitz, a campus micro-influencer, announced his candidacy for ASUC president to his nearly 6,000 Instagram followers on March 19 in an Instagram reel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As president, Lefkowitz plans to eliminate racism on campus, saying, \u201cracism \u2014 we\u2019re getting rid of it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Current Black community-endorsed ASUC Senator Margaret Solomon is running for ASUC president with ElevateCal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very important that we as students get to focus on our education and we don\u2019t have to choose between our basic needs and education,\u201d Solomon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four students have submitted a bid for the position of ASUC president. The ASUC president is tasked with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[113845,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-257554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-asuc_elections_2026","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}