Draft:UBC Student Senate Caucus

Student Senate Caucus
Student Senate Caucus
Chairperson	Bryan Buraga & Ethan Ruggiero
Colors	Blue
Seats	18 / 85

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Comment: In accordance with Wikipedia's Conflict of interest guideline, I disclose that I have a conflict of interest regarding the subject of this article. LlamaFace123 (talk) 08:28, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

The Student Senate Caucus of the UBC Vancouver Senate, sometimes referred to as the Student Senate Caucus, or simply SSC, is the organization of all student senators who are part of the in the UBC Vancouver Senate. For the makeup of the 2026/2027 year the caucus has a total of 18 members. The central organizational front for students in the Senate, its primary function is communicating and organizing the opinions and diverse perspectives of all of its members into a cohesive message or vision. The present co-chairs of the Student Senate Caucus is Senator Bryan Buraga and Senator Ethan Ruggiero.

Membership

The Senate Student Caucus is comprised of 18 members, 11 of whom represent a specific Faculty or School at the University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus. These 11 members are only elected by students belonging to their respective constituency. 2 members represent the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS), with a similar caveat as the 11 Faculty representatives, while an additional 5 represent Students At-Large, where the entire student body can vote for these 5 members.

All Senators serve 1-year terms from April 1st to March 31st of the following year. The exception is the Faculty of Education representative who serves from October 1st to September 30th of the following year instead.

Name	Constituency	Start	End	Term
Kevin Li	Applied Science	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Zarifa Nawar	Arts	April 1, 2025	Present	2
Ethan Ruggiero	Commerce and Business Administration	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Brian Agafitei	Dentistry	April 1, 2025	Present	2
Pratyaksha Awasthi	Education	October 1, 2025	Present	1
Dylan Evans	Forestry and Environmental Stewardship	April 1, 2025	Present	2
Bryan Buraga	Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Sarah Kamal	Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Max Wilson Sladkus	Land and Food Systems	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Priscilla Ng	Allard School of Law	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Nicholas Viegas	Medicine	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Chaeyoung Lim	Pharmaceutical Science	April 1, 2025	Present	2
Alex Chui	Science	April 1, 2025	Present	2
Ian Chung	At-Large	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Drédyn Fontana	At-Large	April 1, 2024	Present	3
Jasper Lorien	At-Large	April 1, 2024	Present	3
Jaiya Panchi	At-Large	April 1, 2026	Present	1
Sultana Razia	At-Large	April 1, 2026	Present	2

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