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The Joint Governance Council exists to approve legislation that concerns both undergraduate and graduate & professional students at UNC, as well as to advise both the USG and GPSG.

Joint Governance Council meets every other Wednesday at 5:30 PM at the Student Union Conference Room 3201.

The next regular Joint Governance Council Meeting will be the 19th of November via zoom. Please send Chairman Sam Harper an email for the zoom link!

All students are welcome and encouraged to attend and provide their thoughts during Open Forum periods.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Chairman Sam Harper

The current membership of the 9th Joint Governance Council is as follows:

Position
Name
Email
Chairman
Sam Harper
swharper@unc.edu
USG President (Student Body President)
Adolfo Alvarez
aalvar@unc.edu
USG Vice President
Katie Fiore kafiore@unc.edu
USG Treasurer Andrew Forbes andforb@unc.edu
*USG Senate – Speaker
Christopher McClanahan
cccc@unc.edu
*USG Senate – Speaker Pro Tempore
Garrett Barnes garretti@unc.edu
*USG Senate – Finance and Appropriations Chair
Nayan Bala nayabala@unc.edu
*USG Senate – Rules and Judiciary Chair Liam Kiley lpkiley@unc.edu
GPSG President Leah Frazier leahkf@ad.unc.edu
GPSG Senior Vice President Paul Alebrande pale@unc.edu
GPSG Vice President for Finance  VACANT VACANT
*GPSG Senate – Speaker, GPSG Senate Voting Member Omar Merhebi oem@email.unc.edu
GPSG Senate – Chair of Rules & Judiciary
*GPSG Senate – Chair of State of Graduate and Professional Students (SoGAPS) VACANT VACANT
*GPSG Senate – Chair of Finance VACANT  VACANT

*GPSG Senate – Voting Member                                                                                            Kaitlyn Hohmeier                         kaith@unc.edu
*GPSG Senate – Voting Member                                                                                            Chase Freeman                      cfreeman1@unc.edu

*GPSG Senate – Voting Member                                                                                            Lex Burson                            lexburs@unc.edu

* denotes voting member