The winner of the 2019-2020 Associated Students Inc. (ASI) Presidential election is environmental management and protection junior Mark Borges. Borges won with 1,941 votes, while journalism freshman Alex Bires received 360 votes and communication studies sophomore Henry Broback received 430 votes.
Borges ran a campaign platform focused on improving four main areas of campus life: health and wellness, diversity and inclusion, sustainability and empowerment of student voices. In his campaign, he said if he was elected, he would attempt to increase opportunities and resources for undocumented students and expand the protections for sexual assault survivors. Currently serving as a chair on the ASI board of directors, Borges had more experience in government than both the opposing candidates.
“I’m so excited to see what next year brings,” Borges said. “Whoever is in this position needs to be someone who can push student issues to the top … the leadership of next year is really forming, and starting that conversation of how we can make a better Cal Poly is what’s most important.”
The winners of the ASI Board of Directors are as follows:
College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences
- Agricultural systems management junior Armando Nevarez with 240 votes
- Agricultural communications junior Chloe Fowler with 225 votes
- Dairy science freshman Genevieve Regli with 212 votes
- Environmental management and protection sophomore Julia Hizami
- Agribusiness junior Matthew Borda. Hizami and Borda tied with 188 votes.
College of Architecture and Environmental Design
- Architecture sophomore Chloe Wardrick with 101 votes
- City and regional planning freshman Zach Noyes with 50 votes
- City and regional planning junior Jack Wanner with 37 votes
College of Engineering
- Aerospace engineering senior Alan Faz with 391 votes
- Biomedical engineering junior Paulina Nguyen with 331 votes
- Biomedical engineering senior Julia Kelley with 288 votes
- Electrical engineering senior Joe Sandoval with 279 votes
- Environmental engineering freshman Tess Loarie with 254 votes
College of Liberal Arts
- Communication studies junior Kylie Clark with 311 votes
- Political science junior Rob Moore with 289 votes
- Political science junior Shayna Lynch with 200 votes
- Journalism junior Dominique Dolores Morales with 177 votes
College of Science and Math
- Liberal studies junior Conner O’Neil with 223 votes
- Microbiology sophomore Sam Park with 157 votes
- Liberal studies freshman Nicki Butler with 153 votes
- Biological sciences sophomore Warner Thom with 139 votes
Orfalea College of Business
- Industrial technology and packaging junior Michael Davis with 179 votes
- Economics freshman Max Feinswog with 160 votes
- Business administration freshman Marissa Hiji with 130 votes
- Business administration sophomore Harjot Sohal with 110 votes
