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 gsa.speaker@ualberta.ca or to the GSA Council support team at gsaca@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@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 | |||
| Black Graduate Students' Association | Filled | Filled | bgspn@ualberta.ca |
| Biochemistry | Laura Enekegho | Ning Dai | bcgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Biological Sciences | Filled | 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 | Filled | Filled | |
| 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 | Moe Fujiwara | Morgan Sapkos | |
| Economics | Filled | ||
| Educational Policy Studies | Filled | Zeynep Oyku Ozturk | |
| Educational Psychology | |||
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | |||
| Education GSA | Jerry Gan | Filled | 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 | Filled | Filled | hecolgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Indigenous GSA | Filled | Filled | igsa@ualberta.ca |
| Internetworking (MINT) | Filled | ||
| Kinesiology, Sport, & Recreation | |||
| Laboratory Medicine & Pathology | Filled | Joëlle Kasongo | lmpsg@ualberta.ca |
| Law | |||
| Library & Information Studies (SLIS) | Vincent Yu | 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 | Filled | Filled | physgpsa@ualberta.ca |
| Physiology | Filled | pgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| Political Science | Filled | psgsaexecutive@gmail.com | |
| Psychiatry | Filled | 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 | Shea Giesbrecht | Matt Ball | renrgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Resource Economics & Environmental Sociology | Juan Andres Luchsinger | Filled | reessa@ualberta.ca |
| Secondary Education | |||
| Sociology | Celine Beaulieu | Filled | sgsa@ualberta.ca |
| Surgery | Filled | Filled | |
| Women's and Gender Studies | |||
| Councillors-At-Large: | |||
| 1 | Ashif Rahman | ||
| 2 | Jovi Krieger | ||
| 3 | Filled | ||
| 4 | Filled | ||
| 5 | Filled | ||
| 6 | Filled | ||
| 7 | Filled | ||
| 8 | Filled | ||
| 9 | Filled | ||
| 10 | Vacant | ||
| GSA Board Executives: | |||
| GSA President | Aashish Kumar | gsapresi@ualberta.ca | |
| VP Academic | Uchenna Okafor | gsavpaca@ualberta.ca | |
| VP Indigenous Relations | Tamara Dubé | gsavpir@ualberta.ca | |
| VP External | Niloufar Mir Fallah | gsavpext@ualberta.ca | |
| VP Student Life | Hazel Kemuma | gsavpsi@ualberta.ca | |
| VP Student Services | Saad Iqbal | gsavpsse@ualberta.ca | |
| Associate VP Labour | Nathan Lamarche | gsavplab@ualberta.ca | |
| Council-Elected Officers: | |||
| GSA Speaker | Vacant | gsa.speaker@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Deputy Speaker | Filled | dspkgsa@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Chief Returning Officer | Filled | gsacroff@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Deputy Returning Officer | Vacant | gsadroff@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Senator | Filled | gsasenat@ualberta.ca | |
| GSA Council Administrator: | Grace Adair | gsaca@ualberta.ca |
