GSA Council
GSA Council members are elected by and from members of the GSA.
GSA Council governs:
- Representation of and advocacy for the betterment of graduate student experiences. This work is carried out by the GSA President and Vice-Presidents in accordance with an annual strategic work plan,
- The maintenance of the GSA, including membership fees and overseeing the GSA's annual budget and expenses,
- The negotiation and provision of graduate student services and support mechanisms, like
the GSA Health and Dental Plan, the U-Pass, and - GSA grants, bursaries, and awards.
The mandate of the GSA Council, in accordance with GSA Bylaw and Policy, is to "fulfill all responsibilities listed in Section 95 of the Post-Secondary Learning Act" (Section C.BYL.1.1 ).
Questions and concerns about GSA Council should be directed to the Speaker at speaker@gsa-ualberta.ca or to the GSA Council support team at gsaca@gsa-ualberta.ca
The below current list of GSA Councillors and Officers will be updated every two weeks as needed. As per university privacy policies, names of Councillors will only be listed if they have completed an information-sharing release form.
If you would like to be put in contact with a departmental Councillor who has not chosen to list their name, then please contact gsaca@gsa-ualberta.ca
| GSA Departmental Councillors | Name | Alternate | Group Email |
| Agriculture, Food & Nutritional Science | Filled | Filled | afnsgsa4@ualberta.ca |
| Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine | |||
| Anthropology | Séamus Rudden | agas@ualberta.ca | |
| Art and Design | |||
| Augustana Campus | |||
| BGSA | Filled | Filled | bgspn@ualberta.ca |
| Biochemistry | Thomas Dumont | Filled | bcgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Biological Sciences | Fleur Issac | Filled | |
| Biomedical Engineering | Filled | Filled | uoabmess@ualberta.ca |
| Business MBA | Filled | Filled | mbaassn@ualberta.ca |
| Business PhD | Filled | Filled | |
| Calgary Campus | |||
| Cell Biology | Filled | Filled | CBSA@ualberta.ca |
| Chemical & Materials Engineering | Filled | Filled | cmegsa@ualberta.ca |
| Chemistry | Shamsheer Ahmad | Filled | cgss@ualberta.ca |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Saniyya Mirza | ceegsa.connect@ualberta.ca | |
| Communication Sciences & Disorders | Padgett Hiew | Filled | uaspeech@ualberta.ca |
| Computing Science | Ayesha Khan | Csgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Dentistry | Shaghayegh (Rose) Rafiei | dentsrg@ualberta.ca | |
| Drama | Emilia Fox Hillyer | Filled | |
| Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | Eran Driscoll | atlaseas@ualberta.ca | |
| East Asian Studies | Shengjie (Fiona) Lu | Chunxiao Li | |
| Economics | Filled | ||
| Educational Policy Studies | Filled | Zeynep Oyku Ozturk | |
| Educational Psychology | |||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | |||
| Education GSA | Jerry Gan | eegsa@ualberta.ca | |
| English & Film Studies | gsec@ualberta.ca | ||
| Faculté Saint-Jean | Filled | Filled | gsacsj@ualberta.ca |
| History, Classics, and Religion | Filled | Filled | hcgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Human Ecology | Zoe Wagner | Filled | hecolgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Indigenous GSA | Filled | Filled | igsa@ualberta.ca |
| Internetworking (MINT) | Filled | ||
| Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation | Miranda Kimber | ksrgss@ualberta.ca | |
| Laboratory Medicine & Pathology | Garrett Grubisa | Filled | lmpsg@ualberta.ca |
| Law | Filled | ||
| Library & Information Studies (SLIS) | Filled | Filled | lissa@ualberta.ca |
| Linguistics | Filled | Filled | lgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Mathematical & Statistical Sciences | Filled | Filled | mathgame@ualberta.ca |
| Mechanical Engineering | Filled | megsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Media & Technology Studies (MTS) | Filled | Filled | dhsa@ualberta.ca |
| Medical Genetics | Filled | mgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Medical Microbiology & Immunology | Filled | Filled | mmigsa@ualberta.ca |
| Medicine | |||
| Modern Languages & Cultural Studies | Filled | lccgrad@ualberta.ca | |
| Music | |||
| Native Studies | |||
| Neuroscience | Emma Heidebrecht | Madelene Ho | Neurosci.gsa@gmail.com |
| Nursing | Filled | nrsgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology | Filled | ||
| Occupational Therapy | Micah Sollid | otpdc@ualberta.ca | |
| Oncology | Filled | Filled | ogsa@ualberta.ca |
| Ophthalmology | Filled | ||
| Paediatrics | Filled | Filled | pedsgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Pharmacology | Filled | Filled |
pmcolgradstudents@gmail.com
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| Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences | Ali Shalaby | Filled | PGSA-Pharmacy@ualberta.ca |
| Philosophy | Spencer Ahearn | Filled | pgsg@ualberta.ca |
| Physical Therapy | |||
| Physics | Christina Strilets | Filled | physgpsa@ualberta.ca |
| Physiology | Filled | pgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Political Science | Savannah Ribeiro | psgsaexecutive@gmail.com | |
| Psychiatry | Emily Ward | Julie Tian | psycigsa@ualberta.ca |
| Psychology | Abby Riesen | Filled | gpsych@ualberta.ca |
| Public Health | Filled | Filled | sphsa@ualberta.ca |
| Radiology & Diagnostic Imaging | Filled | Filled | raddigsa@ualberta.ca |
| Rehabilitation Science | Filled | Filled | rmsa@ualberta.ca |
| Renewable Resources | Filled | Filled | renrgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology | Filled | Filled | reessa@ualberta.ca |
| Secondary Education | |||
| Sociology | Filled | Filled | sgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Surgery | Filled | Filled | |
| Women's and Gender Studies | |||
| Councillors-At-Large: | |||
| 1 | Ren An Lim | ||
| 2 | Mohana Talasila | ||
| 3 | Grace Akuma | ||
| 4 | Gihan Wijelath Arachchige | ||
| 5 | Andrei Gatchalian | ||
| 6 | Filled | ||
| 7 | Filled | ||
| 8 | Filled | ||
| 9 | Filled | ||
| 10 | Filled | ||
| GSA Board Executives: | |||
| GSA President | Saad Arslan Iqbal | president@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| VP Academic | Kingsley Igwilo | vpaca@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| VP Indigenous Relations | Tamara Dubé | vpir@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| VP External | Adrien Lam | vpext@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| VP Student Life | Huddah Kamran | vpsl@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| VP Student Services | Mina Seify | vpss@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| Associate VP Labour | Mohamed Sabek | avpl@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| Council-Elected Officers: | |||
| GSA Speaker | Filled | speaker@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Deputy Speaker | Filled | dspkgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Chief Returning Officer | Filled | cro@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Deputy Returning Officer | Chandandeep Sandhu | dro@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Senator | Filled | gsasenat@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Nominating Committee Chair: | Arseniy Belosokhov | noc@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Elections & Referenda Committee Chair: | Filled | erc@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Council Administrator: | Grace Adair | gsaca@gsa-ualberta.ca | |
