2025-26 SGA Executive Council Elected
Last week, MC students heard from the candidates and voted in SGA’s next central leaders.
Last week, the student body of Mississippi College (MC) voted in a new executive body for the Student Government Association (SGA). The elections occurred on Tuesday, March 25, and the announcement of the winners was made via Instagram on Wednesday, March 26. Three of the four new executive council members were uncontested, but the vice presidential race was between three candidates.
The 2025-26 SGA executive councillors will be President Grey Thompson, Vice President Jace Denson, Chief Justice McLain Boyd, and Business Manager Grace Knight.
An executive council debate was held on the evening preceding the elections, Monday, March 24. The three uncontested candidates — Thompson, Boyd, and Knight — related their plans to an audience of peers in Swor Auditorium. The three candidates for vice president, Denson, Camryn Robertson, and Naomi Strozier, were each given a chance to answer a series of questions regarding their plans, ideals, and potential policies.
Denson, who seemed to elicit the most reactions from the crowd at the debate, expressed hopes for reenergizing student life and making improvements to student facilities, such as adding Tide Pod dispensers to dorm laundry rooms. Denson emphasized drawing on his prior experience as a 2024-25 SGA senator and assistant director of the campus affairs committee.
“I’m always trying to talk to people and see their ideas,” Denson said during the debate. “If you know me, you know I’m a social person, and I really enjoy getting to know people and getting to know what they see on campus that I’m not able to see.”
Business Manager Knight, a graphic designer and double major in accounting and finance, emphasized her plans to bolster the SGA’s outreach and public relations efforts, including posting regularly on social media, refining utilization of mass emails, designing appealing graphics, and strengthening communication.
“It’s just really important to me, so I know I will be able to put my time into it to make it better and benefit students,” Knight said.
Boyd, who referenced predecessor Jason Ray as a model for his own leadership, expressed hopes to be a neutral, fair, and uncompromising operative of the student justice system. “I consider myself an outsider to campus,” Boyd said. “I’m an independent.” Boyd plans to draw on this aspect of his identity to ensure fairness.
“I feel like, in my rulings as a chief justice, I’ll be able to see not just the perspectives of the people that are going to be on the judicial council, a lot of whom will be in clubs and tribes, but like my own perspective, a lot of them will be unaffiliated,” Boyd said.
The executive council will be led by Thompson, whose key goals for SGA involve increasing visibility and bolstering student life.
“I’ve already held a couple of leadership positions across campus, and one thing I’ve really seen from other executives is communication,” Thompson said. “Communication is key. If you don’t have good communication, you’re not going to be effective. Another thing is hearing everyone’s ideas. You have an executive council for a reason – to hear everyone out and get everyone’s ideas. Everyone’s got a voice.”
Updates about SGA leadership and initiatives can be found on the organization’s Instagram page.