Join us to advocate for a better CUNY for students. Expanding resources, raising our voices, and building our USS community. Vote for STAR: Students Together Advocating for Resources
Kayla Aaron
Chair
I was born and raised here in New York and am a Senior at Baruch majoring in Public Affairs with a minor in New York City Studies and Law & Business. I am happy to catch and play any sports game, and have a special love for basketball. I love spending time with my family, cooking together and playing board games. Throughout my time in college I have served as the field director of State Senator Kevin Thomas’s re-election campaign, learning how to reach out to people and mobilize advocates. I worked at the UN in the security council where I learned how to collaborate with others, listen to different perspectives, and delegate issues.
I love to make braided friendship bracelets, to read, and to sing (so get hyped for some karaoke!) I believe that bbq is the best flavor for potato chips and that peanut butter and chocolate is one of the best food combos out there.
I am running for Chair to make a difference and expand access to resources for all CUNY students including Metro/OMNY cards, advisement, food on campus, e-permit, and more! I trust the people on this slate for their experience, enthusiasm, and integrity. Vote for STAR!
I want to speak with you! Contact me at kayla.aaron@baruchmail.cuny.edu
Noam Abrams
Vice Chair of Fiscal Affairs
Hi everyone! My name is Noam Abrahams, I am a senior majoring in Digital Art at Brooklyn College. I joined USG almost immediately after coming to Brooklyn College, starting as a senator in the Fall of 2022, then was appointed as Treasurer starting in the Spring of 2023. As the treasurer, I ran weekly meetings, advocated for students, worked to highlight campus resources, and represented students on collegewide committees alongside faculty and administration. Last year, I was elected as President of Brooklyn College USG as well as USS alternate. Some of my favorite projects I’ve worked on over the past 2 years in USG were the college’s first Interfaith event and creating the Event Planning Guidebook for Club Leaders.
I’m running for VC of Fiscal Affairs because, over the past two years, I’ve gotten a peek at how behind a lot of CUNY’s fiscal policies are and the handicap that puts on clubs. My first piece of legislation as a senator at Brooklyn College was to get CUNY to raise the in-house spending limit for clubs after they set it to $250 at the start of the pandemic. As VC of Fiscal Affairs, I hope to be able to focus on updating the processes for student clubs (and student governments) need to tediously endure just to bring basic student life to campus, like a long overdue update to CUNY’s Fiscal Accountability Handbook. I’d also take the opportunity to focus on USS’s long-term financial health, focusing on long-term investments to prevent depreciation of USS’s reserves, as well as making students feel their investment in USS is worthwhile by bringing the benefits of USS to each campus in more tangible ways.
Chase Whitmire Johnson
Vice Chair of Senior College Affairs
My name is Chase Whitmire Johnson, I am a thirty-one year old student from The City College
of New York. My studies consist of a major in History and a minor in legal studies. After gaining
my bachelor’s and my minor, I will pursue my studies at a school of law.
I came to this organization to further represent the unrepresented at my university, after arriving
and seeing the quality of work that is done here. I saw a chance, an opportunity, to further my
representation of my university and others like it. There are many hiccups in the CUNY system
that negatively impact universities, and I now have to come to correct those hiccups.