Student Organizations

CED Undergraduate Student Council

The mission of the CED Undergraduate Student Council (UgSC) is to represent the undergraduate student body within the College; address the needs of undergraduate peers through service; provide representation on College committees; and advocate for the undergraduate student population in CED to faculty and administration.
UgSC is affectionally pronounced /UHG-see/.

Basic responsibilities include:

  1. Bi-weekly or monthly (depending on council consensus) council meetings.
  2. Council meeting with the Dean and Associate Dean of Undergrduate Education minimum of once per semester.
  3. All other tasks developed in one's annual term.

Structure of Council (Subject to change by council's will by consensus):

1 to 2 representatives per academic major in CED

  • 1-2 representatives for Architecture
  • 1-2 representatives for Landscape Architecture
  • 1-2 representatives for Sustainable Environmental Design
  • 1-2 representatives for Urban Studies
  • 1-2 representatives for Individual Major

UgSC Staff​

Meet Your 2019-2020 UgSC Representatives!

Architecture
 

Gabriela Nehorayan

Gabriela Nehorayan | 4th year 

Gabriela Nehorayan is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with a minor in Sustainable Design. She takes a special interest in innovation and Human-Centered design within the architecture field. Outside of studio and classes, Gabriela has a passion for dance as an alternative creative outlet. She is additional an avid designer and she takes on the role of Design Chair and Apparel Chair in multiple clubs.

My Platforms

I want to advocate for a community setting within CED by creating a mentorship program that matches upperclassman with lower-classman.

I want to advocate for affordability by creating a reuse and sale program through CED for people to sell and donate unused/extra materials.

I want to improve CED student teacher connections by providing events that allow you to talk with your teacher outside of a classroom setting.

Alex Zhao | 3rd year 

My name is Alex, and I’m an Architecture student with an interest in construction, structural engineering, and architectural history. Outside of the classroom, I enjoy graphic design in the form of stickers and hoarding stationary.

My Platforms

Improving mental health conditions, resources, and access across the college.

Reduce the cost of a comprehensive design education through fundraisers, scholarships, and grants.

Increase collaboration and mentorship from freshmen students to alumni.

Landscape Architecture

Brigitta Rehn  | 4th Year 

I would like to be more directly involved in the CED community this year and I believe that the council brings together the various undergraduate programs in an important way that benefits the overall school which I hope to add to by representing both Landscape Architecture and transfer students.

My Platforms

Encouraging greater undergraduate attendance at events and lectures at CED through more focused advertising and outreach.

Creating a framework for knowledge sharing among CED students to promote an atmosphere of communal learning.

Creating a more organized system of reuse and passing on materials in order to provide for lower student costs and waste reduction.

Sustainable Environmental Design

Vacant

Urban Studies

Ashea Fuller | 4th Year 

As a re-entry transfer, veteran, and parent, Ashea proudly represents and stands in solidarity with non-traditional students from a position of expansive life and work experience. As a humanist and empath, it is easy for her to meet all people and systems where they are. An action-oriented realist, she proactively uses her own subset of privilege to boldly face historically overlooked issues, influence and impact social and physical structures with intention, and create change.

My Platforms

Support student wellness in academic rigor

Real world innovation & collaboration

Practicum-based solutions to CED/department needs

Vacant

 

Staff Advisor

Isela Pena-Rager

Undergraduate Student Council Advisor
510-642-4944
isela.penarager@berkeley.edu
250 Wurster Hall