Emily Hajjar

Emily is a senior political science major, born and raised in Quincy, MA.
Emily is a varsity coxswain on the UMass Women’s Rowing team and is proud to be a 4 year student athlete.

As a political science major Emily has focused on environmental and energy policy. She has interned with the EPA and has a true passion for sustainability and renewable energy.After spending a semester in Washington D.C. interning in the President’s environmental policy office

Freshman year Emily served at the Secretary of the Gorman house council and helped plan many events for the Gorman/Wheeler cluster. Sophomore year Emily became a Senator representing the Southwest South area. She served on the Administrative Affairs Committee and Subsidiary Governance Bodies Select Committee where she helped change the election process for area governments and worked to make the SGA more efficient and transparent. She hopes to continue that work as Vice President. She has also served on the Select Committee on Athletic Pride and Development and the Football Review Committee representing the voices of student athletes on campus.

She served as the Undersecretary of the Registry for the Spring 2013 semester and loved getting to know students that are excited about creating RSOs and that want to make this campus a better place!

Bring Vice-President of the SGA is a huge honor and Emily is excited to be the first women in the position.

More than anything in the world Emily loves to snuggle with her Boston Terrier, Sammy.

Emily's articles

“UMass, UMake a Difference!”

The SGA is proud to join with UMass External Relations and the surrounding towns to present “UMass, UMake a Difference”, a day dedicated to celebrating the best of our students, and to promote the communal partnership we share with our neighbors. This day of service will take place September 15th, and will feature various projects [...]

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SGA Coffee Hour

I’m excited to announce and unveil this new SGA initiative, which will increase our outreach to contituents and inprove our campus communication: Starting September 4th we will host the SGA Coffee Hour, from Monday – Thursday every week, between 4PM and 5PM in the SGA Office (420 Student Union)! Come in and relax in the [...]

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