Zoe Nathwani, Class of 2024 president

What are some of your initial goals for the next year?

“The first thing that I want to do is grade merch. This seems like kind of stupid, but I have been trying to get grade merch started for the past two years, and it just hasn’t happened because of COVID. So, my first priority is getting our grade some merchandise. I also want to have some events at the end of this year, at least one event before we close out the year and then start next year strong with another one. And I think finally, I want to work on the bill that I’ve been working on, the voting initiative, and just get that kind of in the works again.”

Can you tell me more about the voting education program?

“Currently, Lab has the voting program every four years, like in a major election cycle year for the presidential elections. So it’s 2020, 2016, 2012. And you get seniors registered in November, but I realized how important is to get everybody registered every single year. And so, what I want to do is implement a voter education and registration program that will happen at the end of senior year for everyone, so that way, as many people are 18 as possible so they’re eligible to get registered and people can learn about absentee ballots, voting in college, when elections occur and the value of actually voting and things other than a presidential election.”