Team Victoriam for the win

A glimpse into the new executive ticket 

Team Victoriam, the newly elected Student Government Association executive team, said they are going to keep a continuous relationship with student organizations and clubs around campus.  

The new executive team is composed of Juan Espinoza, who will serve as president; alongside Ian Alfaro, external vice president; and Clarissa Rendon, internal vice president, for the 2025-2026 academic year. 

The organization announced the results April 11 and Team Victoriam won with 42% of the vote with their term beginning May 15. 

In an interview with The Rider, Espinoza talked about the team’s first step into their proposals. 

“One of our main goals is to just open up the dialogue between student government and organizations on campus,” he said. “Particularly because, when we talked to a lot of organizations during campaigning, some of the things we were told immediately [were] ‘We don’t want to talk with you. You’re related to the student government,’ because they could never reach out to those people.”

Espinoza continued to explain the team’s distinctions from past administrations.

“We have different, like, beliefs, we have different goals of things we want to achieve, but I think that [it was] uniqueness in our team that made us so strong and allowed us to win,” he said.

The Rider asked the external vice president how they intend to maintain an active and accessible way to connect with the student body throughout their term. 

“What we can really do is use SGA as a platform, not to highlight the students in student government, but to highlight students on campus,” Alfaro said. “We should highlight individual student success, not just our own.”

He said their primary technique will be to keep students informed. 

“What we wanna do is we wanna bring SGA to the students instead of being vice versa,” Alfaro said. “Instead of the students coming to SGA, we want SGA to [go] to the students.” 

The external vice president told The Rider about their idea of coming up with new proposals to make students feel comfortable. 

“We have some ideas,” he said. “Like I said, having constant meetings with these senators and stuff. It goes back to what I said, take an initiative going out and reaching out [to] them instead of waiting for them to reach out to us.”

Rendon told The Rider about how students feel in regard to the lack of recognition given to student organizations and clubs. 

“Honestly, it feels more like a community college than an actual university,” she said. “That is something a lot of students have told me personally.”

The internal vice president said the team wants the best for the university. 

“We’re gonna work together to work towards it,” Rendon said. For more information, visit the SGA website.