Council Elect

Nominee for President

I am humbled by the encouragement I have received from my peers to step into this role. Your trust is a gift I desire to steward well.

As I have prayed over the decision to run for president, I am struck by the reimagining of the wilderness in Ezra’s prayer in Nehemiah 9 (shout out to our Advanced OT Exegesis class). A story of disorientation and discontent—longing for Egypt or the Promised Land, but never the present—is reframed as the context in which God is most intimately present to his people, sustaining them and forming them into a community ready to inhabit his promises. I believe that for many of us, our years at Regent can feel like a sort of wilderness. Liminal, transitory, an anticipation more than an arrival. We each deal with the discomfort and vulnerability of the wilderness in myriad ways. As president, I hope to lead our community in wandering well together, attuning to God’s presence in our midst as He stretches our trust and forms us into people whose lives are worthy of the calling we have received.

“You in your great mercies did not forsake them in the wilderness” Nehemiah 9:19a

God is working in the wilderness. My role as president is to pay extra attention to that work, looking beyond my own studies and preoccupations to listen to the rustling of the Spirit as He blows within and among us, collecting our community’s experiences and giving them voice within Regent’s administration. I also desire as president to identify and draw out the manifold gifts of our community so that the student body may grow and build itself up in love, as each part does its work. I am excited by the good work that Christ has begun in us that He is bringing to completion. May the Lord use the work of our hands, hearts, and minds for his glory in the year ahead.

Nominee for VP Academic

There are few things I love more than school and learning. If I could be a student my entire life, I would. Before studying at Regent College, I completed a BA in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta, where I studied multiple religious traditions in a non-confessional environment. At Regent College, I have had the opportunity to study similar topics, through the Christian lens and with a Christian posture. In both confessional and non-confessional academic environments, I have encountered and experienced the love of God for God’s world and God’s people. It is my desire to see others experience the same.

If I were to be elected as VP Academic, I would be committed to advocating for a diverse, rigorous, fair, and ultimately fun academic environment at Regent College. I would be committed to fostering a safe environment where difficult questions and conversations are not only tolerated, but encouraged. Furthermore, I would be committed to advocating for an academic environment that equips students for life outside of Regent College, whether that be in the workplace, the Church, or in Academia.

Nominee for VP Student Life

During my first academic year at Regent, I've been able to be involved and committed to the events and community at the colege. I love spending time with people and hearing about their stories. I also enjoy social events and any sort of space given to the students to bring people together, celebrate diversity and share thoughts about what everybody's been learning and how God is working through them.

By asuming this role (if elected) I will intentionally try to find new ways to make students feel connected and supported. I will also contribute to any initiative students might come up with in order to enrich their experience at Regent.

I love the arts, and I love the arts at Regent. I love that I can find creativity in every secret corner around here. So many of you have hidden talents in music, dance, creative writing, visual arts and more. And with things like Audible, the Etcetera, chapel offerings, and IPIATs, we get to enjoy those talents publicly as a community. And what a gift that is! As an artist myself, I'm so grateful for the ways that Regent is colored with the earnestness of creativity. But I also see places where there can be more conversation and space for the arts to live really vibrantly here, and ways that an artistic frame of mind can benefit a larger community seeking after knowledge of and relationship with Christ. I'd really love to serve Regent artists and the whole Regent community this coming academic year by stirring those conversations and create those spaces.

Being a recent arrival in Canada and North America, the culture shocks have been many and many-layered! As things slowly fall into place, I would love the opportunity to help other students feel supported and at home.

If that happens, I will do my best to create an atmosphere of encouragement, honest sharing, and relationship-building, drawing on my natural strengths as someone raised in a community-oriented culture with three younger siblings!

Succinctly put, prayer and spiritual formation is one of my favourite areas of "nerdom." Through a season of recovering from major depression disorder, I sought out resources on many sides of Christian spiritual formation. I called it a mild obsession. However, it wasn't just reading, but an ongoing experiment with the ideas presented. And I can honestly say that my growth as a Christian - in feeling more human and more connected to God - came through this season moreso than growing up in a Baptist church or attending Capernwray or studying theology at MBI. There is wisdom in learning from those who have walked before us, capturing those ideas, and sorting out how to apply them in this cultural moment. And having opportunities to freely pass along what I have discovered (and continue to discover!) gets me stoked as. It gets to the heart of why we study Theology, why we are here at Regent - to discover something about Truth. This is why I'd like to run: to be a visible resource for those who may not be sure who to ask (and if I'm not elected, come find me anyways!)

I’ve been deeply blessed by the Regent community—and especially by the M.Div cohort—even in my short time here. Through honest conversations and shared experiences, they’ve helped make the language around ministry feel less intimidating and more relatable. That kind of support is invaluable as we each discern and grow into our pastoral vocations.

I’m running for this role because I want to give back to the community that has already poured so much into me. As M.Div Representative, I hope to serve as a bridge between students and the school—listening to voices, facilitating meaningful dialogue, and fostering a space where we can grow together in both courage and humility.

As an online student, sometimes I feel disconnected from the vibrant life at Regent. I'd like to find creative ways where we, distance learning students, could be more connected one another and with the out of class experience.