The new officers of Saint Augustine’s Student Government Association were inaugurated last week in a ceremony in which they were both congratulated and challenged. In the Oct. 17 event at the Saint Augustine’s University Chapel, Interim President Dr. Marcus H. Burgess noted that he was once a Student Government Association president himself.

“We are all going to have to get on the same page to make this work,” Dr. Burgess said. But he added that he expected the new student leaders to assert themselves.

“A challenge you, as student government leaders, to challenge me to be a better president, to challenge faculty to be better faculty, to challenge staff to be better staff, and to challenge your fellow students to be better students.”

Kristoff Strachan, SGA President, indicated that the students were up to the challenge. “We are more than students,” Strachan said. “We are a Falcon family. For almost 160 years our Saint Augustine’s University has been a place for resilience and transformation and, as your president, I will ensure that every student contributes to our collective success. …Together we can build bridges to a new destination.”

The new officers are as follows:

Kristoff Strachan, President.

Senior political science major from Tarpum Bay, The Bahamas

Tillia Leary, Vice President.

Senior accounting & business administration major from Rock Sound, The Bahamas

Karly Heavens Gerome, Sophomore Class President.

Sophomore engineering mathematics major from Ouanaminthe, Haiti

Markleanie Gibson, Senator

 Junior business administration major from Nassau, The Bahamas

Annissa Johnson, Senator

Junior business administration major from Nassau, The Bahamas

Shevchenko Michel, Freshman Class President –

Freshman business administration & computer information systems major from Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Israel Pennerman, Senator

Junior public health major from Nassau, The Bahamas

Teja-Aaliyah Williams, Junior Class President

Junior psychology major from Nassau, The Bahamas

Taniya Williams, Executive Secretary

Senior computer information systems major from Washington, D.C.

Monasha Camp, Senior Class President

Senior criminal justice major from Charlotte, North Carolina

Leila Wardrick, Senior Class Vice President

Senior business administration major from Fayetteville, North Carolina

Davonya Siffrin, Senator

Senior biology major from Nassau, The Bahamas