Rachel Chewakin
Civic Engagement Director
My name is Rachel Chewakin and I am a current senior from Lincoln, NE, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. For the Spring 2013 semester, the Civiv Engagement Department will partner with other Policy departments to ensure students will become engaged in the local and state community. We will continue to finish our voter registration initiative, as well as encourage student participation and expand voter knowledge. Our role as a policy staff is to facilitate events, initiatives and movements that will change the civic health of the ASU student body and increase the overall student voter turnout.
Office Hours
Monday
10 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Tuesday
12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Wednesday
10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.
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Christopher Mendezona
Government Affairs Director
My name is Christopher Mendezona. I am a sophomore from Keller, Texas studying Business with my focus being Global Politics. A lot of collaboration will be made through all four USG offices establish and attain goals. One of our goals is to secure proper disparity funding from the Arizona Legislature to make ASU as affordable as the other state universities in Arizona. Securing performance base funding will be an important item in the agenda that will continue to help solve funding problems in the future.
Office Hours
12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
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Casey Clowes
University Affairs Director
My name is Casey Clowes and I am a junior from Tempe, AZ. I am double majoring in Public Service & Public Policy and Women & Gender Studies. I see University Affairs working to build strong relationships with the administration and students to create positive sustainable changes. I want to collaborate with Senate to form an appropriations process that is both just and easy to understand, to work heavily with students to inform them about the unfair distribution of state funds and build a campaign to increase the number of students actively working on disparity funding, and to build better relationships with clubs on campus so that USG has can better support our Sun Devils this year with its university-wide initiatives.
Office Hours
Monday
12 A.M. – 4 P.M.
Tuesday
2 P.M. – 4 P.M.
Wednesday
10 A.M. – 12 P.M.
Thursday
1 P.M. – 3 P.M.
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Jordan Davis
City of Tempe Liaison
My name is Jordan Davis and I am a sophomore from Portland, Oregon, who is majoring in Political Science. I plan on getting more people involved in the government and in politics, from a bipartisan way, because this is the only way that democracy functions. As the largest university in the country, we have a responsibility to voice our opinions. The Office of Policy can be responsible for achieving this. My goal is to have an average of 10 students and/or staff members attend Tempe City Council meetings every Thursday evening. With more students at the meetings, our voices will be much louder and our opinions respected much more. With a population of around 120,000 people, the city of Tempe is fairly large. However, the ASU Tempe campus has around 60,000 people on it. This means that half of the population of Tempe is students at ASU, making it crucial to make sure that students get involved in government affairs. Attending city council meetings will directly increase the presence of ASU students in the government, thus making sure that our voices are heard and our concerns are paid attention to.