Adam Pillion

Know the Candidate

1. Please outline your relevant experience for this position:

   I would like to conitnue working on initiatives like universal washroom spaces, increased accessibility to hygeine products in all buildings and increased access to change tables in washrooms across campus. I would also like to work towards furthering our partnerships with groups like the Alumni Association and the Campus community garden to increase accessibility to these servcies for grads.

2. What specific initiatives and projects would you undertake related to this role?

   I would like to conitnue working on initiatives like universal washroom spaces, increased accessibility to hygeine products in all buildings and increased access to change tables in washrooms across campus. I would also like to work towards furthering our partnerships with groups like the Alumni Association and the Campus community garden to increase accessibility to these servcies for grads.

3. How do you plan on facilitating positive work relationships within the GSS board and membership?

   In my year as the president I have developed and fostered numerous relationships with all of these groups by following a simple guideline “act different to be treated different.” My approach to every group is 100% evidence based and does not come without solutions, I will never force a problem onto someone without having an idea or a dialogue about how to fix it.

4. What lessons/skills have you acquired from overcoming an obstacle in your educational career and how can you apply those learnings to this position

   The GSS is the single most important group to a graduate student, if you pay our fees you are a member. You deserve for your voice to represented and for your experience to be amplified by us and that’s what the GSS represents. We are an amplification of all of our members and we ahve the ability to impact every student and that is critical to the overall experience someone has here in grad school.