Allie Satterfield
Position: Chief of Staff on Internal Affairs
Summary of work completed in August: During the month of August, I worked closely with Intern Coordinator Randy McFarland to release the intern application. We also spent time reviewing and bettering the Intern Program curriculum. I also held all of my check-in meetings with those executives I oversee. I worked to update our WVUEngage page, making sure our roster and page were up to date. COS Kemp-Rye and myself held our first full executive meeting during the month of August as well.
Summary of plans for September: During the month of September, I look forward to continuing my efforts towards executive accountability. I will be holding my monthly check-ins, as well as our full monthly executive meeting with COS Kemp-Rye. I am going to continue working with Intern Coordinator Randy McFarland on implementing his plans and goals for the Intern Program during the month of September.
Adrienne Kemp-Rye
Position: Chief of Staff of External Affairs
Summary of work completed in August: During August I worked on several projects to help prepare for the start of the school year. I finished up meeting with each of my executives to discuss their onboarding and expectations of each position. For retreat, I worked to create an executive presentation to discuss both duties for the year as well beginning a conversation on each individuals’ goals. During retreat, Allie and I had executives fill out a form about their goals, expectations, and questions for the year. We addressed each of their questions during our group executive meeting at the end of August, while also sending our answers to those questions in a document. This month I also worked on tweaking the design of a student resources phone numbers phone wallet, getting that approved by University Relations, and going through with the order. Finally, I published the Student Resources 10 for 10 survey with the help of the committee, as well as began planning on the safety town hall.
Summary of plans for September: September is safety month, so we’ll be placing a larger emphasis on those efforts and promotions. The safety town hall will happen at the beginning of the month, while releasing the safety 10 for 10 and other events later in the month. I’ll also begin helping with the planning of different events surrounding voting registration and awareness. Finally, I’ll be reviewing the executive monthly reports to see what is in the works for the month and help contribute to those efforts. As always, I’ll attend to any other things that come up that need my attention.
Alex Cappadona
Position: Treasurer
Summary of work completed in August: During the month of August I have completed, continued, and started many tasks. In early mid-August, I prepared and delivered a BoF and Student Org Grant presentation for retreat. Following retreat, I began working on (and completed) internal documents, such as a BoF cheat sheet and Meeting with Orgs checklist Google Form. The cheat sheet is an updated version from the previous Fiscal Year; however the Google Form is the brainchild of Auditor Shoemaker and myself. This Form was created to improve consistency and accountability of our committee, while also creating a paper trail. After the completion of these documents, Auditor Shoemaker and myself prepared and held two separate BoF trainings. This training was to inform BoF members of the grant application process and to prepare for meetings with organizations on Zoom. Additionally, I finalized the Student Organization Grant Application on WVUEngage and have began making preparations to release the application during the first week of September. Finally, I have met with SGA Advisor Dr. Le on Tuesdays to discuss university policies and budget expectations.
Summary of plans for September: In early September, the Student Organization Grant Application will be live and available to all registered student orgs. We will begin BoF meetings with orgs on the first Sunday in which we have applicants. The Assembly voting members will be seen and hopefully appointed during the first SGA meeting. Finally, I hope to remain flexible and responsive to changes in the university policy and public health environment while supporting student organization and student life to the fullest extent.
Youssef Georgy
Position: Legislative Affairs Officer
Summary of work completed in August: Over the month of August, I established communication with Big 12 counterparts and monitored federal legislative activity.
Summary of plans for September: For September, I plan on reaching out to the offices of notable elected officials as well as fellow Legislative Officers in other West Virginia college's student governments throughout the state.
Randy McFarland
Position: Intern Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: Intern Program preparations, zoom meetings, outreach
Summary of plans for September: Implementation and start of the intern program
Deionte Harrilla-Gray
Position: Outreach Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: In the month of August I planned out my semester and how I can most effectively perform in my position. I helped Student Org. Liaison Chris Cunningham with the Student Org Group Chat as well as further brainstormed initiatives I could take in my position.
Summary of plans for September: Plans for September include getting my InfoHours planned and up and running via zoom. These will be a way to push all things SGA to the student body.
Anneliese Kaczmarek
Position: Sustainability Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: Created an idea log for the upcoming semester, which outlines various projects I plan to work on. I am also scheduled to meet with a representative of the sustainability office in order to gain a better understanding of current sustainable initiatives on campus.
Summary of plans for September: This month I hope to finalize an agenda for November - Sustainability Month. I also plan to collaborate with the coalition of student orgs focused on sustainable practices. Finally I also want to connect with WVUTeach in order to discuss developing sustainable workshops for local elementary and high schools.
Tracey Picou
Position: Executive Secretary
Summary of work completed in August: I completed my very first meeting minutes of 49 pages! I joined the safety committee for SGA and I am now sitting on the Committee for Assembly Vacancies.
Summary of plans for September: I plan to work closer with the safety committee and improve my secretary skills and organize things for SGA a little more.
Chris Cunningham
Position: Student Organization Liaison
Summary of work completed in August: Created a groupme to encourage collaboration among student orgs. Created a document with resources for them. Working with B&E DICE Committee to get some organizations running.
Summary of plans for September: I already sent this in to Dr. Surendra to see if the project will get approved. I'll be in a group with 4 MIS students to develop a web app for student orgs for a project in his class. As the SGA Student Organization liaison, my goal is to help student organizations navigate through a new era of e-collaboration. I want to develop better processes of collaboration and/or a web application to supplement or be adopted by the WVUEngage platform with Student Engagement and Leadership that could consist of a digital asset management system using topic maps and skill maps.
Devyn Osborne
Position: Chief Information Officer
Summary of work completed in August: I've been working to complete every member's headshot in addition to maintaining the landing pages of each tab in terms of minutes, accurate COVID resources, various applications (grant, intern, etc). I also have begun to brainstorm how to effectively achieve getting a headshot done for each member.
Summary of plans for September: Work to grow the LinkedIn, complete headshots and upload them and keep legislation up-to-date
Madison White
Position: Safety Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: In August, we formed our Safety Committee and focused on the issues to which we want to bring awareness. We developed both short and long term goals for the academic year, with a special emphasis on addressing safety concerns and COVID-19.
Summary of plans for September: Our committee will be kicking off September with a Safety Town Hall on September 3rd. We will also be collecting data about students’ safety concerns through our 10 for 10 survey that will go out later this month. Additionally, we will be utilizing our social media to bring awareness to specific safety resources, such as the LiveSafe app, using the walk signal, and using PPE.
Sam Shoemaker
Position: Auditor
Summary of work completed in August: I worked with Alex to prepare for grant application to be released. We worked on and completed the grant application and completed training for our new members. Personally, I have been working on making the audit for this academic year a continuous document so that anyone can access it at anytime to find up-to-date information. I created an exit survey for student organizations that apply for a grant through the Bureau of Finance to ensure we are always improving and are aware of what student organizations are doing on campus. I completed a weekly summary template to send to the assembly and executives weekly to keep everyone informed on the student organizations applying for grants and the budget.
Summary of plans for September: I plan to promote the grant application and form package deals that we may be able to offer to student organizations. I will also help train the new members of the Bureau of Finance. Lastly, I will complete the continuous audit report and send out a weekly update at each meeting.
Madison Bowers
Position: Student Experience Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: I was able to learn a lot about SGA through attempting the retreat. I also helped to organize our 10/10 with a local business and I met with Sabrina Cave to discuss what the committee spoke about during the retreat.
Summary of plans for September: I would like to take the results of the 10/10 and run with it! We should give the results to higher ups at WVU and use our resources through the committee to try to make changes based on the results.
Saul Harlow
Position: Attorney General
Summary of work completed in August: Preparing for the first meeting including 1) Governing Docs Review Committee 2) Legislative Vacancies
Summary of plans for September: Become more familiar with committee needs and hone in on governing docs.
Logan Riffey
Position: Local Governance Liaison
Summary of work completed in August: In August, I began to attend Morgantown City Council Regular Meetings and look forward to voter registration efforts in October.
Summary of plans for September: I will begin meeting with other executives to put plans for October onto paper. I will also reach out to the communication team to see what we can do about a social media campaign promoting voter registration, civic engagement, and election education.
Raimah Hossain
Position: Inclusion Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: In August, I met with President Riggs and External Chief of Staff Kemp-Rye twice. The first email was my onboarding meeting just to discuss some preliminary ideas for the year, including talk of the intersectionality coalition and a possible women’s organization-focused conference sometime throughout the year. The second email was more focused, including more elaboration on sending emails to the organizations listed under my position and the intersectionality coalition. I drafted an email to send to these organizations, had President Riggs and Chief of Staff Kemp-Rye proofread my email before I sent it to them, and received a couple responses as well. For the intersectionality coalition, President Riggs sent me the list of organizations, and I met with Student Organization Outreach Coordinator, Chris Cunningham, to discuss ideas for an intersectionality coalition event in September. We have decided to complete a trivia event with these organizations, as well as perhaps invite more organizations to join the coalition.
Summary of plans for September: In September, I will continue to communicate and respond to those organizations that fall under my responsibility. This will include responding to some emails I have received as well as sending follow-up emails to the organizations that did not respond/finding alternative methods to contact them. Chris and I will be sending emails to the list of intersectionality coalition organizations to provide basic information about the event and provide them with a poll of a time for the event that works best for them in the third or fourth week of September. I will also be planning a meeting with President Riggs and Chief of Staff Kemp-Rye to discuss the WVU Point of View videos and possibly working with the same videographer that assisted us with the mask video. Furthermore, a nonprofit organization named “Art with Impact” that focuses on mental health of college students through the arts and intersectionality reached out to me about possibly having a phone call with Chase and I about their work and possible working with SGA. I plan to speak to President Riggs about that.
Camryn Pressley
Position: Elections Chair
Summary of work completed in August: Since getting the position, I have reviewed the Elections Code making sure that articles and sections are up to date on the rules we have currently. While doing this, I reformatted the Code and started to brainstorm on ideas that would make Elections more fun and better for SGA. One of the biggest parts of the work was trying to figure out how to make fun and safe elections this year and in the future.
Summary of plans for September: One of the major plans for September is to start figuring out how many college senators are going to have the ability to run for a seat.
Lana Aboushaar
Position: Communications Coordinator
Summary of work completed in August: Oversaw an increase of around 85 followers on the Instagram account. Promoted the retreat, intern applications, trivia night, student engagement 10 for 10 on both Instagram and Twitter. The tweet for intern applications had a reach of over 12,000 impressions. Released Instagram spotlights introducing the executives and the assembly members.
Summary of plans for September: Continue promoting the Instagram account to increase following. Preparing spotlights for the BOF, interns, and the judicial court. Creating a highlight to promote our 10 for 10 partners. Curating an aesthetically pleasing feed, with photos and graphics dispersed almost evenly. Promoting out LinkedIn page and increasing engagement on other social channels such as Facebook and Twitter.