The JCR Committee is made up of a group of Christ's students who have been elected to represent the views of the undergraduate students at college and university level. The central role of the JCR Committee is to represent the interests and look after the welfare of the student body. This could include anything from running events to discussing food, accommodation or access in our meetings. Each member of the JCR committee has a specific responsibility. Find out more about each position below!
Committee
Core
Ossie Visick
President
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Hello! I'm Ossie, Christ's JCR President for 2023. I am the principal undergraduate representative in college and I am responsible for overseeing the JCR's activities. This year, my plans are to negotiate with college to mitigate rent rises, secure more study space for students, reform the scholars' system and look at alternative ways for heating the college pool. I am working closely with all officers on the JCR to make student representation as effective as it can be. Please get in touch if you have any questions or any concerns that you wish to discuss!
Christina Lawrence
Vice President
she/her
Hi, I'm Christina, your Vice-President and I am so excited to continue my work on the JCR this year. I hope to learn more about the challenges facing Christ's students so that we can make changes both in college and at a university level. Alongside this, I have my own projects that I am excited to continue such as: organising more themed formals (hopefully with a charity focus), improving the freshers' room allocation form and coordinating more inter-college events. Please feel free to email me with any questions or queries about student life at Christ's!
Skyler Roberts
Treasurer
he/him
Hi! I'm Skyler, the JCR's Treasurer for 2023. I'm responsible for the JCR's financial management as well as the funding of more than 30 student societies. I'm excited to be continuing the work of our previous treasurer through our successful Free Prescription Scheme, and I'm working on establishing better financial analytics tools and archival measures to help our current and future JCRs to continue these schemes. Continuing my previous work with the JCR, I'm taking on some of Christ's longest standing student enquiries with thorough financing considerations; the next project is getting better access to punts for Christ's students!
Chiara Delpiano Cordeiro
Secretary
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Hello! I'm Chiara, your JCR secretary! My job involves sending the weekly bulletin (an email that brings joy), running the JCR social media platforms, and taking the minutes/preparing the agendas for meetings throughout the year. My aims are to further publicise events and cool opportunities going on around Christ's, provide short summaries of what the JCR is doing, and create a dynamic calendar of events going on around college! I also hope to increase interaction with the JCR Instagram through fun content, student takeovers, and more. Just send me an email if you have anything you'd like to publicise in the weekly bulletin, cat photos for the JCR socials, or any ideas/suggestions and I'll be happy to help!
Welfare Officers
Julen Lippman-Errasti
Welfare Officer
he/him
Hi, I'm Julen, your Male/Non-Binary Welfare Officer! Alongside Olivia, I'll be working to expand the college social spaces as well as running inclusive, relaxed events throughout term to help students take their minds off work, like weekly Welfare Walks. I'll work with other members of the JCR committee to make sure students feel welcome and safe around college, and to help the incoming freshers settle in. Please send me an email or message @ChristsWelfare on Instagram if you have any questions or want a chat!
Olivia Moynihan
Welfare Officer
she/her
Hi, I'm Olivia, your Female/Non-Binary Welfare Officer! This year, I hope to ensure that Christ's is a supportive and welcoming environment for all students by being an approachable point of contact and liaising with college to ensure that their decisions are in the best interests of students' welfare. I'll be working with Julen to organise a plethora of welfare events throughout the year, and I'm also designing a welfare handbook for incoming freshers to support their transition to university. Feel free to get in touch via email or on the @ChristsWelfare Instagram if you have any queries or concerns, or just want to chat!
Events
Neha Pauly
Events Officer (Ents)
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Hello! I'm Neha, this year's Ents Officer. My job is to make Christs as fun as possible by organising bops, alt-bops, and various other events. This year, I hope to organise more events with other colleges, work with the Buttery staff on official college and seasonal drinks, as well as host a wider array of social events by collaborating with other officers and local businesses. Please do come talk to me or shoot me a message if you have any feedback or suggestions on how to make Christ's slay!
Isabelle Mohammed & Qinglan Du
Freshers' Reps
she/her & she/her
Hi! We're Isabelle and Qinglan, your Freps for the upcoming year! We're both lawyers, but promise to make next year's freshers' week more fun than our degree. Just because you might not experience freshers' week again doesn't mean you won't be involved in our plans! In the coming term, we will be hosting marriages for all the engaged college couples out there (plus throuples and single parents), and over the summer you will have the opportunity to meet and give advice to incoming freshers. Then in freshers' week, we're looking forward to hosting an array of events to suit everyone's preferences! And as promised, you will get to tag along on the trip to Mars.
Diversity
Kai Briggs
Class Act Officer
he/him
Hey! I'm Kai, your Class Act Officer for this year. My role is to support any student who has experienced educational, social, economic or cultural 'disadvantage' (basically continuing Access post-admissions, so I hope to collaborate a lot with our Access Officer so that you get the support you need). A few of my plans are to continue establishing the Class Act community at Christ's, to organise a range of events (socials, speakers, etc), and to create comprehensive resources about Class Act (especially on financial and welfare support). I also want to be available to support students myself, so please get in touch if you have feedback, questions, issues, or just anything Class Act related!
Juno Buchan
Disabled Students' Officer
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Hi all! I'm Juno, your disabled students' officer, or DSO. My job is to make sure that Christ's is as welcoming and accessible as possible to any student who identifies as disabled, which I hope to achieve through improving Christ's physical accessibility, as well as ensuring that all disabled students feel that college is a place where they can express any needs or concerns and be listened to. I plan to improve lighting around college and access to facilities, as well as to expand awareness of assistance that's available to disabled students, such as the DRC and funding schemes. Please get in touch if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions!
Ayo Akande
Ethnic Diversity Officer
he/him
Hi, I'm Ayo, your 2023 Ethnic Diversity Officer! Through this role I hope to increase the celebration of different cultures within Cambridge, through formals and events within colleges, as well as working with other college JCRs. Part of this would be more discursive events such as panels and talks, with both students and guest speakers involved. I also hope to work with societies such as ACS and India Soc to support the work they do, as well as working with the subcommittee to ensure the needs of a wide range of groups are catered for. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to drop me an email!
Ana-Maria Skaricic
Women's Officer
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Hi! I'm Ana-Maria, this year's Women's Officer. I'll be representing women/nonbinary people at college and making sure that Christ's continues to be an open and inclusive community for all genders! This year, I hope to expand FemSoc's events (swaps, arts & crafts nights, and speaker events), ensure that menstruating students have access to sustainable period products throughout college, and provide a safe space for students of all genders to air any concerns. Please get in touch with me if you have any feedback, concerns, or just want a chat!
Ju Yi Tai
Internationals' Officer
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Hi! I'm Ju Yi, a second-year medic from Malaysia, and I'm your international officer! This means I can help with anything international-related, whether that's storage, food, welfare, or if you just want someone to talk to. I'll also be organising events with other internationals from college and throughout Cambridge, as well as working with the college and JCR to make your stay in Cambridge as comfortable as possible. Feel free to raise things you'd like to see changed, ask me any questions about settling in, or just talk to me about anything on your mind - I'd be glad to chat!
Misc
Georgie Van Dyke
Access Officer
she/her
Hi, I'm Georgie and I'm your Access Officer! I will be working with the JCR and the Admissions Team to continue developing outreach initiatives and widening participation events. I am really passionate about encouraging and supporting students from underrepresented backgrounds when applying to university and to Cambridge specifically. I want to help provide prospective students with enough information to know if Cambridge is right for them, regardless of their background. I'm looking forward to working on the SU Shadowing Scheme, collaborating with Access Officers from other Colleges and for getting lots of new CReps involved in different outreach initiatives this year. Please do get in contact if you have any questions or would like to get involved with anything I do!
Mikolaj Rycek
Catering & Facilities Officer
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Hi! I'm Mikolaj, this year's Catering and Facilities officer. I hope to organise a college punt, listen to student feedback to ensure Upper Hall and the Buttery are satisfactory, and work with other members of the JCR committee with their projects. Please send a message or an email if you have any suggestions to improve the Catering and Facilities at Christ's!
Rachel Doran
Green Officer
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Hi, I'm Rachel the Green and Charities Officer. My job is to work to try and make Christ's a more environmentally friendly college, as well as to organise fun charity events to raise money for our 3 college charities (currently these are Jimmy's Cambridge, Cancer Research UK and WaterAid). My plans currently include an overhaul of the food waste disposal system in college accommodation, setting up new end-of-term food bank collections, improving communication between college staff and students about green initiatives, and supporting the college in working towards the next Green Impact Award. Please do get in contact with me if you have any ideas/ suggestions for how to make Christ's greener!
Miles Watson
Webmaster
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Hey, I'm Miles, the JCR Webmaster! I built the website you're currently looking at, and am constantly working to improve it. My current plans for the upcoming year include an improved anonymous feedback system, a better (customisable + subscribable) termcard, and an interactive questionnaire that students can use to determine their eligibility for various grants & bursaries. Please drop me an email if you find any bugs, or want to suggest a feature / improvement!