{"id":37811,"date":"2025-04-29T16:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=37811"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:56:22","slug":"new-slate-of-sga-officers-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/new-slate-of-sga-officers-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"New slate of SGA officers sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new slate of Furman University Student Government Association<\/a> (SGA) officers had to \u201csolemnly swear\u201d to uphold their oath and fulfill their duties, but there was nothing solemn about their swearing-in; it was a celebration.<\/p>\n

\"Students

Mariam Nguy\u1ec5n \u201926, right, takes over as the president of the Student Government Association during a meeting in the Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center April 28.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the elected student representatives opened their meeting, they each shared their summer plans to encouraging applause for their upcoming internships, research opportunities and summer jobs. Younger students thanked the outgoing seniors for their mentorship, while seniors looked forward to the festivities of the Last Day of Class.<\/p>\n

Yaseen Echekki \u201925, the 2024-2025 SGA president, passed the torch to Mariam Nguyen \u201926 on April 28 during an SGA meeting in the Trone Student Center. As her first act as SGA president, Nguyen swore in the newly appointed Parliamentarian Kya Boseman \u201927 and Elections Chair Clay Wallace \u201926.<\/p>\n

Echekki, who had served as SGA vice president before he was elected president, said he didn\u2019t know his tenure would be such a wonderful experience. He and other SGA officials tried a new meeting structure to better facilitate dialogue about student issues, and he said, \u201cI don\u2019t think I could have asked for a more supportive council.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nguyen said she was honored to be a part of SGA\u2019s legacy; first as a class representative her sophomore year, then vice president in her junior year. She said she strives to renew<\/p>\n

SGA\u2019s focus on transparency, student advocacy and engagement with university administration to push student-driven ideas from conversation to implementation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working to be more proactive in how we approach student concerns,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s about ensuring the work we do is reflective of and responsive to our campus community.\u201d<\/p>\n

SGA will hold elections for first-year class representatives in the fall. The following students will represent Furman\u2019s student population on SGA for the 2025-2026 academic year:<\/p>\n

\"Two

Clay Wallace \u201926, left, and Kya Boseman \u201927 are sworn is as elections chair and parliamentarian, respectively, of the Student Government Association during a meeting in the Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on April 28.<\/p><\/div>\n

Executive Officers<\/h3>\n

\u00b7 President: Mariam Nguyen ’26, politics and international affairs major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Vice President: Kobby Frempong ’26, biology major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Treasurer: Caroline Orr ’27, classics major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Secretary: Sarah Chingwena ’27, health sciences major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Parliamentarian: Kya Boseman-Nesbitt ’27, politics and international affairs major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Academic Affairs: Curtis Wilson ’27, health sciences major<\/p>\n

Senior Class Representatives<\/h3>\n

\u00b7 Meghan Bove ’26, politics and international affairs major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Sean Humphrey ’26, health sciences major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Hannah Butlak ’26, Earth and environmental sciences major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Meghan Madretzke ’26, psychology major<\/p>\n

Junior Class Representatives<\/h3>\n

\u00b7 Ava Cresto ’27, health sciences major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Abbey Vincent ’27, chemistry major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Lane Lytle ’27, religion major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Libby Adams (Fall 2025) ’27, politics and international affairs major<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Michelle West (Spring 2026) ’27, undeclared<\/p>\n

Sophomore Class Representatives<\/h3>\n

\u00b7 Ellison Floyd ’28, undeclared<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Jack Gibson ’28, undeclared<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Hannah McCoy ’28, undeclared<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Grace Finkel (Fall 2025) ’28, undeclared<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Olivet Deschamps (Spring 2026) ’28, undeclared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Outgoing SGA President Yaseen Echekki ’25 passed the torch to Mariam Nguyne ’26 during a swearing-in ceremony on April 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":37803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37844,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37811\/revisions\/37844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}