• Serve as treasurer for the PGSA.
• Serve as a representative to the Graduate Philosophy Affairs Committee (GPAC):
  • Attend GPAC meetings.
  • Voice concerns of graduate students to the department/faculty representatives.
• Attend departmental meetings as a student representative.
• Organize PGSA elections for subsequent year.
• Call and chair PGSA meetings.

Rowan Green

Sara Varón Echeverri

• Attend all PGSA meetings and take minutes.
• Submit minutes to the President(s) for approval and distribution.
• In the event of both Presidents being unable to fulfill their duties, the Secretary is responsible for organizing a new election.
• Alternative Secretary to perform the duties of the Secretary should he or she be unable to attend a meeting.

Thomas Kaufman-Nash

Alternate: Vacant

• Must attend Society of Graduate Students monthly meetings from October until September.
  • PGSA receives money per councillor for each meeting attended.
• Serve as liaisons to inform our department about events and changes in SOGS.
• Once nominated at the September PGSA meeting, Co-Presidents and Councillors must fill out Councillor Nomination form and give to SOGS: https://sogs.ca/council/
  • SOGS council meeting information is posted here: https://sogs.ca/events/
  • If a councillor cannot attend a meeting, they must find a replacement. This replacement must take a completed Councillor Alternate form to the meeting: https://sogs.ca/council/

Zahra Noormohamed

Henry Platt

• Attend Stewards and General Membership meetings- PSAC communicates this information by email.
• Serve as the representative of the union local to the PGSA
• Serve as first point of contact for grievances and other labour issues
• Fill out the Department Steward form and return to PSAC office: https://www.psac610.ca/index.php/stewards-committees

Zahra Noormohamed

Vacant

• Planning and advertising weekly graduate student talks over the fall and winter terms.
• Organizing a “Congress Practice Session” early in the summer term (before the annual “Congress of the Humanities and the Social Sciences”).
• Organizing a works in progress series to run throughout the summer term.
  • All colloquium organizers must read the abstract for each paper prior to its distribution to the members of the PGSA and the faculty.
• Organize Works In Progress Series (WiPS) in the summer term.

Sara Varón Echeverri

Jingxuan Li

Zahra Noormohamed

• Update phil-gsa mailing list with new students’ emails, and removing graduated students’ emails.

• Create and maintain PGSA website

Committee for Inclusivity in
Philosophy (CIP)

• Organize professional development activities targeted at issues relevant to the climate for underrepresented or marginalized groups in philosophy.
• May work with faculty members to organize department-wide development activities.

Farid Saberi (Climate Committee Representative)

Serene Sakhnini (New Student Liaison)

Zhitong Liu

Sara Varón Echeverri (Climate Committee Representative)

Climate Committee Representatives

• Members of the department Climate Committee. 

Farid Saberi

Sara Varón Echeverri

• Having diverse social and wellness events for increased accessibility and inclusiveness.
• Communicating with the graduate community to ensure that their needs and wants are well-reflected in the organized events.
• Promoting wellness awareness by the dissemination of mental health resources. 
• For wellness initiatives, you may apply for SOGS’ Graduate Student Wellness Fund.

Isabella Braga

Griffin Marling

Zhitong Liu

• Serve as the first point of contact for new students.
• Solicit graduate student volunteers for hosting prospective students.
• Introduce prospective students to hosts via email.
• Being present and available at the Open House in the Winter Term as student representatives.
• Acquiring a list of incoming students from the Graduate Chair and sending an introductory email.
• Introducing new students to the department at the beginning of the fall term.
• Running the Mentor Program:
  • Soliciting graduate student volunteers for mentorship.
  • Assigning graduate student mentors to new graduate students.
  • Introducing new graduate students to their mentors.

Rowan Green

Zahra Noormohamed

Purya Rabet