Ten positions to be filled on the SA Board of Directors
The candidates for ten positions on the Student Association’s (SA) Board of Directors have been confirmed.
The SA is holding its spring elections this month with three executive and seven educational center representative positions to run for. Many students have shown interest in running for the positions and come forward to nominate themselves.
A total of 48 candidates have been certified by the Chief Returning Officer as qualified to run for the elections. They are as follows:
Director of Communications and Internal
- Mohammedshadabkhan Pathan
- Kewal Raja
Director of Education and Equity
- Parth Dave
- Ajay Dhillon
- Vishwajeet Gadhavi
- Rudraa Khatvase
- Meha Modi
- Vartul Rai
- Rhutik Thakor
- Mohammad Usman
Director of Student Experience
- Piyush Chowdhury
- Peter Corno
- Anahita Gholizadeh
- Shourya Joshi
- Ramandeep Kaur
- Navjot Kumar
- Simran Malhotra
- Emma Onwuzuluorah
- Keshav Sharma
- Jaskaran Grewal
- Divij Sukhwani
Arts, Design, and Information Technology Educational Centre Representative
- Shalom Aideyan
- Artem Elagin
- Manvi Gumber
- Utsav Kalathiya
- Sheela Makhija
- Mohammad Sadar
- Chakshu Sharma
- Eeshan Trivedi
Business Educational Centre Representative
- Sam Budhiraja
- Sonakshi Chanana
- Maddy Gilbert
- Syed Rahman
- Preksha Sharma
- Tejas Tank
Community Services and Early Childhood Educational Centre Representative
- Barichisu Osman Abugbila
Construction and Engineering Technology Educational Centre Representative
- Manas Babbar
- Ibrahim Hatia
- Zin Hein
- Abhay Nathani
- Aryan Sharma
- Ashveer Singh
Health Sciences Educational Centre Representative
- Brianna Ainsworth
- Max Davidson
- Purva Sethi
Hospitality and Culinary Arts Educational Centre Representative
- Sahil Arora
Preparatory and Liberal Studies Educational Centre Representative
- Manveer Johal
- Ronaldo Weir
Additionally, students will vote for the George Brown College Student Governor. They are the students’ voice on the GBC board, ensuring that issues important to students are heard directly by the college.
Three candidates have been certified to run for this position:
- Ansh Jain
- Farahnaz Turkmani
- Marion Shevlin
The campaigning period is now underway, with candidates being able to choose their own method and medium of campaigning.
Voting will be held between March 27 and 31, and students will be able to vote online and in person. All current GBC students are eligible to vote.
Students can learn more about the candidates by staying updated during the campaign period. The Dialog will conduct a townhall debate for the three executive positions on March 22. The debate aims to provide candidates with a platform to share their plans and intentions and allow students to learn more about them.
The debates will take place at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. for the Director of Student Experience, Director of Education and Equity, and Director of Communications and Internal respectively.
The debate will be accessible for students through zoom via this link. Students can send in questions they have for the candidates via email to communications@sagbc.ca.
For quick election updates, visit and follow @sagbc on Instagram.
