Matt Sindt
Candidates Carly O’Brien and Mitch Winterlin speak during a University of Iowa Undergraduate Student Government debate in the Iowa Theater in the Iowa Memorial Union on March 26, 2023.
Mitch Winterlin and Carly O’Brien will serve as the University of Iowa Undergraduate Student Government’s next president and vice president during the 2023-24 academic year.
The pair won 51 percent of the vote. They ran against Vera Barkosky who served as the 2022-23 vice president and Robert Jepsen who served as the 2022-23 director of finance.
Winterlin and O’Brien are both third-year students at UI with previous participation in the undergraduate student government. Winterlin served as the director of student services and O’Brien served as the director of operations in the 2022-23 UI Undergraduate Student Government Administration.
The undergraduate student participation in this year’s election was higher than previous years with 1570 voters.The 2021 election had 475 students vote, and the 2022 election had 699 students vote.
The number of voters in addition to the winners of the 2023 election were announced by UI undergraduate student government election commissioners Alivia Rosendahl and Boris Miller.
These results were announced at a meeting Friday afternoon in the Iowa Memorial Union after three days of voting. Voting began for undergraduates on March 27 and ended on March 29.
Both senators-at-large and constituency senators were elected and announced at the meeting. Constituency senators sit on the Justice & Equity committee and serve with the purpose of advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to represent the needs of the student group they represent.
31 senators-at-large were elected, with 7 being new and 24 being returning senators. The senators-at-large elected in the election included:
Arsha Vaddadi
Lucas Manley
Emmerson Speer
Skylar Radz
Matthew Lancaster
Mae Barron
Addison Eckard
Katie Meredith
Marco Morel
Leah Stringer
Josh Studer
Quinn Eldridge
Thomas Knudsen
Amira Qidwai
Amisha Mohanty
Ben Cooper
Emma Seward
Ahmed Baig
Emma Cutsforth
Gabriella Michalski
Harrid Siraj
Jake Wicks
Jack Carrell
Marta Leira
Madison Ross
Jaden Bartlett
Ioanna-Aliki Kassioti
Maycen Zimmerman
Advika Shah
Mitchell Militello
Zaden Issah
Constituency senators were also elected, representing a multitude of student groups. Senators elected include:
Amiritha Kumar as the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American constituency senator
Maria Eduarda Rodrigues Leite as the International Student constituency senator
Willie Zheng as the First Generation constituency senator
Estella Ruhrer Johnson as the LGBTQIA+ constituency senator
Natalie Kehrli as the Disability constituency senator
Cielo Herrera as the Latine constituency senator.