Greetings to you all. It is a pleasure to be your Vice President at the GSA. Aside from being a nerdy neuroscience researcher, I am also responsible for bringing your concerns to the Laurentian Graduate Council Studies, to the Ontario Graduate Caucus with the Canadian Federation Of Students and for establishing good working relationships with other student associations. I must say my life is pretty plain: laboratory work , student issues work, taking my dog for walks and no skills whatsoever to write a miniBio. Inspite of all this I do hope that you come by our office and pay us a visit; you are all most welcome!

Jessyka Lamirande is the Graduate Students' Association Secretary within the executive. During the summer of 2011, she organized the  Graduate Students' Association soft ball team, the Thesis Defenders. Throughout the 2010-2011 academic year, she worked with the then-secretary to amend the GSA Constitution. Jessyka is working on activism in relation to women's rights in the form of pro-choice rallies and awareness, and is in the process of organizing a series of events on sexual assault awareness including arranging speakers and a slut walk to be held in Spring of 2012. She is also an executive member of CUPE 5011, your Graduate Teaching Assistants union. Jessyka is a master's student in applied social research. She is studying sex trafficking and immigration.