Six Candidate Pairs Contend for HUA Presidency

Six pairs of candidates are running to be the next co-presidents of the Harvard Undergraduate Association for the 2025-26 academic year.

The candidate slates include: Hamza T. Masoud ’26 and Avery G.D. Pratt ’26, Tsion A. Daniel ’27 and Sahil Sood ’27, Abdullah S. Sial ’27 and Caleb N. Thompson ’27, Sophia F. He ’27 and Malachi C. Miller ’27, Omosefe I. Noruwa ’27 and Matthew R. Tobin ’27, and Nathan R. Westbrook ’27 and Chase M. Bourbon ’27.

Last spring, the HUA’s election cycle was overshadowed by controversy surrounding a series of efforts to oust then Co-President John S. Cooke ’25 that led to a landslide recall election. In the end, Cooke’s recall election received 305 more votes than the HUA leadership elections had only one week prior.

This year, four candidate pairs are composed of executive team officers and cabinet members from current or former HUA administrations. Academic Team Officer Tobin and Internal Events Manager Noruwa comprise one entirely-HUA ticket, while Social Life Officer Daniel and Co-Treasurer Sood make up the other. He serves as current Residential Life Officer, and Masoud was the former residential life officer for last year’s administration.

There are two tickets that appear to be parody candidacies. While Masoud and Pratt’s platform features calls for “longer recess” and “better weather,” Westbrook and Bourbon — who ran together on a similar playful platform last year — are running on a simple promise of “Making Harvard Great Again.”

But not all campaigns are as light-hearted. Sial and Thompson are running a campaign that is seemingly critical of the current HUA administration, with emphasis on transparency and action following a system they allege has failed in the past.

In their official platform, the pair claims that they “are not the administration’s mouthpiece” and that “the HUA has failed to show up” for students.

Voting for co-presidents and other cabinet positions opens to undergraduate students on April 2.

—Staff writer Nina A. Ejindu can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on X @nina_ejindu.

—Staff writer Claire L. Simon can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on X @ClaireSimon.