The Student Alliance is a platform that represents all student voices in order to facilitate and advocate ideas and solutions within the RISD community.
The Student Alliance serves the RISD student body, acting as a link between students and the administration. We facilitate discussions, advocate for the student perspective, and help get the word out about things happening on campus in addition to planning multiple events throughout the year. The Alliance consists of six executive committee members as well as Department Representatives from each studio major on campus. Students are elected to join the Alliance through campus-wide elections held at the end of each academic year.
Looking to get in contact with the Alliance?
You can always find us lingering around Carr House or eating all the free candy in the CSI office. As a group, we meet once a week in the Taproom on the top floor of Memorial Hall to provide feedback and hear from different departments and administrators on campus and then share the information we hear back with you. You can visit our Events page to take a look at who’s coming to meet with us and when or check out the Dialogue tab for an archive of meeting minutes and other important info.
We want to hear from you!
Have thoughts on who we should invite to our next meeting? Want to share your opinions or concerns? Email us at [email protected]!
Get to know your RISD student government!
Sophie Weston Chien
President - Architecture 2020
Contact: [email protected]
Muram Bacare
Secretary - Architecture 2021
Amy Huang
Treasurer - Industrial Design 2021
Ken Tsuchida
Communications Officer - Industrial Design 2021
Natalie Rivera
Communications Officer - FAV 2021
2018/19 Department Representatives:
Architecture: Jisu Yang • [email protected]
Apparel: Danielle Simpkin • [email protected]
Ceramics: Aubrey Greenawalt • [email protected]
Film/Animation/Video: Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma • [email protected]
Foundations: Elections in Wintersession 2019
Furniture: Adam Fertig + Sruti Suryanarayanan • [email protected] + [email protected]
Glass: Abby Mitchell • [email protected]
Graphic Design: Rory Hernandez-Romero + Ja Yoon Lee • [email protected] + [email protected]
Illustration: Cat Huang + Taylor Pannell • [email protected] + [email protected]
Industrial Design: Rosa Park • [email protected]
Interior Architecture: please email [email protected] if you are interested in this position
Jewelry + Metalsmithing: Hannah Kim • [email protected]
Painting: Yan Diego Wilson • [email protected]
Photography: Niko Krivanek • [email protected]
Printmaking: Sam Northcut • [email protected]
Sculpture: Sam Newman • [email protected]
Textiles: Ian Danner • [email protected]