ASSU executive: Cardona and Wharton
With their “One Stanford” campaign underway, Angelina Cardona ’11 and Kelsei Wharton ’12 are hoping to clinch the ASSU executive seats on a promise of unifying students and stakeholders — balancing vast goals with specific student life issues.
Both international relations majors, the pair became friends while they were team leaders for the Foundations for Education (F4Ed) math tutoring program.
Kelsei Wharton (left) and Angelina Cardona. (ELIZABETH TITUS/The Stanford Daily)
Though they joined the race at the tail end of the petitioning period, the two have gained significant traction with the student body, bagging endorsements from seven major student groups: the Student of Color Coalition (SOCC), the Queer Coalition, California College Democrats, the Women’s Coalition, the Green Alliance for Innovative Action (GAIA), The Stanford Progressive and the Stanford Daily Editorial Board.
Cardona and Wharton are no strangers to campus politics, and are the only undergraduate slate with major ASSU experience.
Cardona, currently a freshman resident assistant in Trancos, served as dorm president in Branner her freshman year and was selected as chair of mental health and later as co-chief of staff under former executives Jonny Dorsey ’09 and Fagan Harris ’09.
Wharton, who is currently the deputy chair of the Undergraduate Senate, was previously a Frosh Council representative and served as Ujamaa dorm president. Outside the political realm, Wharton is involved in Volunteers of Latin America (VILA) and the Haas Center’s Public Service Leadership
