About the Sanchez Ticket

Hi everyone!
Our ticket comprises Alejandro Sanchez, Darienne Debrule, and Kerry Larson. Alejandro is currently running for Student Body President, while Darienne and Kerry are running for Vice President of University Relations and Vice President of Student Relations respectively. Here is a little bit more about the team!

Alejandro Sanchez:

Alejandro Sanchez, born in Caracas, Venezuela is currently double majoring in Political Science and International Studies with an emphasis in Foreign Relations. Moved from Venezuela six years ago he is a proud Latino and wants to make sure every student has the tools to succeed academically. He has served in various amounts of ASUU positions throughout his student career, interned in Senator Mitt Romney’s office, and currently serves as a Presidential Intern.

Kerry Larson:

Kerry Larson born in Los Angeles, California is currently a Finance major in the David Eccles School of Business and has been heavily involved within the business school and throughout campus. Kerry currently serves as Vice President of the Finance Club where she works with undergraduate students on resumes and interview preparation. She works on creating diversity initiatives such as highlighting early insight programs for females, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, Veterans, and Graduate students who are interested in pursuing a finance career. She also began teaching women the basics of investing in the stock market. She wants to give back to the student body that has supported her within the past three years of her academic career.

Darienne Debrule:

Darienne Debrule is a third-year triple majoring in Political Science, Economics, and Communications. She is currently an advocate for Mental Health Awareness and that is shown through her podcast available on Spotify. She wants to create more diverse student representation throughout campus and help them find their voice. Darienne currently interns at KUER 90.1 where she is able to lay the groundwork for her initiatives of representing students who feel they do not have a voice.

Our three platform pieces are Mental Health, Safety, and Innovation. While we will go more into depth about our action items with these pillars we will briefly describe the plans we want to accomplish.

Mental Health:

Our goal in the Sanchez Ticket is to first and foremost create awareness of the subject and educate students through first-year student orientation and implementing educational material throughout campus and online. We understand that this year has been a struggle in terms of mental health and we want to make resources FAST and easily accessible, the wait times and lack of therapist accessibility is not ideal and our goal is to change that by utilizing graduate students in need of clinical hours to assist licensed professionals.

Safety:

Our goal is to increase the dialogue with students and administration in regards to safety issues on campus. We plan to do this by increasing lighting in hot-spot areas where interpersonal violence and unwanted advances occur, additionally work with the Lauren McCluskey Foundation, increase knowledge of university resources for students Safe Ride, SafeUT, and work with student organizations such as Students for Action Focused Empowerment (S.A.F.E) to push these initiatives and communicate with administration effectivley.

Innovation:

The presidency has control of implementing the budget and getting the budget approved by the board of trustees in addition to distributing student fees. We want to analyze where student fees are going and put that funding towards resources and initiatives that will effectively benefit the students. Our innovation pillar has a large focus on expanding the current resources and boards implemented in ASUU to adapt to the current student body environment, i.e: inclusion of graduates, students who are parents, LGBTQ+, and students of diverse backgrounds. We as a ticket additionally have plans prepared plans for all three class settings (online, hybrid, and in-person) If the state and university decide to transition back to in-person, we want to make sure we take into consideration students and faculty at high risk, RA’s, student parents, as well as other factors.

All the best,

The Sanchez Ticket