Vice President Community & Wellbeing
Hi! I’m Alexandria, VP Community and Wellbeing for 24/25
- Favourite thing to do: Building LEGO, going to the cinema, listening to Fleetwood Mac
- 3 words to describe me: Kind, empathetic, passionate
- One word to describe JMSU: community
- Advice to give a Fresher: don’t be afraid to reach out for support – JMSU is here for you 😊
- One thing I am willing to do to step out of my comfort zone: Work on my public speaking
- My key aims as an officer this year: Improve student safety, decrease travel costs, tackle rising food and energy costs, continue work from last year
My manifesto aims 👇
Improving Student Safety
Complete
- Implement anti-spiking and anti-sexual violence training to ensure student leaders have the opportunity to be trained as effective allies and can run safe socials
- Reclaim the Night march and Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls campaign
- Ensure that safety items continue to be readily available for students at JMSU
In progress
- Working with key city-wide stakeholders to improve student safety in the night time economy
Decrease Transport Costs
In progress
- Work with the university to ensure commuter students are being supported with the cost of travel
- Work with external travel companies to lobby for student discounts to ensure students have access to affordable transport
- Work with key city-wide stakeholders to expand the night bus service to ensure students have access to travel safely within the city
Decrease Rising Food and Energy Costs
Complete
- Work with Liverpool Student Homes to ensure students have the opportunity to research accredited accommodation providers and landlords
- Lobby local MPs to address the student housing crisis and ensure students are being taken into account in the Renter’s Rights Bill in Parliament
In progress
- Know Your Rights campaign
- Work with the university to improve the Cost of Living support available to students (including food costs and energy bills)
