Meet the candidates for Duke Student Government president and executive vice president

Duke Student Government elections will run from Wednesday at noon to Thursday at noon, and the candidates are making their cases to the student body.

Juniors Teddy Hur, Heather Raslan and Emily Yagoda are running for DSG president, while junior Akhilesh Shivaramakrishnan is running for the executive vice president position. Check out the profiles below for in-depth information about each candidate.

DSG President

Teddy Hur

Hur — a member of Duke LIFE’s executive board, Pi Kappa Alpha brother and an active member of the Duke Catholic Center — wants to support Duke’s first-generation low-income community, create a safer social scene for Greek Life organizations and selective living groups and make DSG more accountable, accessible and dynamic.

Heather Raslan

Raslan is the current vice president of academic affairs and plans to further community project work, engage with and empower student groups and improve DSG’s internal structure.

Emily Yagoda

Yagoda, president of the Class of 2025 and Engineering Student Government’s vice president of campus outreach, is running on a platform built around three pillars — connect, empower and transform.

DSG Executive Vice President

Akhilesh Shivaramakrishnan

Shivaramakrishnan, the current DSG outreach coordinator and former associate vice president of Durham and community affairs, hopes to achieve the broader goal of “building a better DSG” for first-year students, student groups and Durham and Duke’s community partners.