Deborah V. Alexis and John M. Fossum, second-year students at Harvard Law School, have been elected co-presidents of the student body and will be joining Harvard for the 2024-2025 academic year, according to an email sent Thursday to the HLS student body. He will be leading the university's law school student government.
According to its website, HLS Student Government allocates funds to student organizations, hosts campus-wide events, and serves as the “voice of the student body” for HLS administrators and faculty to improve health, diversity, and academics. is listed as a priority.
In addition to the co-presidents, HLS students elected new 3L, 2L, and SJD HLS student government representatives in uncontested elections.
Isabel M. Thorne, Felicia R. Caten-Raines, Holden W. Hopkins, and Gilbert Placeres represent the 3Ls. M. Hadassah Trau, Arie Kolk, Fabrice P. Guyot-Sionest, and Robert J. Kim will represent 2L. And Arvind Kuran Abraham will be his SJD representative.
Kolk and Kim are currently serving as 1L representatives, and Katen Raines is currently serving as 2L representatives.
HLS student Patrick T. Healy won the only contested election against Alexander J. Friedman and will become director of student organizations.
Current co-presidents Tolulope V. Aregbelai and Swapnil Agrawal announced the results via email Thursday afternoon, saying they are “confident that our work will continue under the leadership of our wonderful colleagues.” I will leave office with this in mind.”
“This year's events have caused anxiety and fear for many students,” Katen Raines wrote in an email to The Crimson.
Katen Raines hopes that HLS Student Government can “contribute to the recovery of the student community” through “more powerful avenues for students to share their concerns through surveys, meetings with representatives, anonymous suggestion boxes, etc.” I wrote that I was doing it.
—Staff writer S. Mac Healey can be reached at mac.healey@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @MacHealey.
