By Melanie Arias & Kenna Jenkins, March 17, 2026
Cal Poly Pomona’s Associated Students Inc is hosting it’s Board of Directors elections for the 2026-2027 academic year.
ASI is a student government founded in 1963 that serves CPP students and works as a non-profit organization.
According to ASI’s 2025-2026 action plan, the student government works to improve accessibility, advocacy and student and college enhancement.
The Poly Post reached out to all three presidential tickets, which each include a presidential candidate and a vice president candidate running together.
Here’s what the candidates had to say.
President Ticket One:
Pedro Rosales and Jack Lamborn
Pedro Rosales, a third-year sociology student on the pre-med track, said he’s running for president to make ASI more accessible for students, with Jack Lamborn as his vice president.
Lamborn, a third-year environmental science student, said through his experience working at CPP’s Care Center as a student assistant for the past year, he’s discovered a gap in students’ abilities to seek out services they need, pushing him to run for the ASI board.
Through their campaign, Rosales and Lamborn said they want to increase ASI’s visibility to students around campus.
To do this, Rosales said he wants to work with CPP departments and collaborate for small events. He also said he not only wants to increase communication between ASI and students but also resources and students.
“We really want to increase students using student resources,” Rosales said. “I personally had a friend who had to drop out because he didn’t know there was mental health services.”
One of the main initiatives Rosales and Lamborn hope to implement if elected is called The Unity Project, where students on campus would take part in a survey asking about their major, interests and when they are free around campus, which will also include unifying the informational systems across campus. This includes myBAR, websites used to access student resources and emergency funding.
“From that, clubs can get that data and shift their events and times to fit the students,” Rosales said.
Lamborn said not a lot of people know they can get free clothes at the Care Center or that they can speak to on-campus case managers and get emergency funding, housing or food.
“The most important resources are really difficult to find,” Lamborn said. “It’s difficult in the first place for (students) to learn what’s available.”
According to Lamborn, tuition is rising, parking pass prices are increasing and on top of that, students still have to pay for class materials. One of Lamborn’s goals is to figure out how to decrease financial costs for students.
“Those are the kinds of things that mean the difference between a student staying here and dropping out,” Lamborn said.
Rosales said since coming to CPP, he’s joined a club about bats with Lamborn, won an award for helping media creation and worked with engineers to create a device that could turn waste scraps into methane gas.
“There so many crazy things at Cal Poly that you would never expect,” Rosales said. “You could do anything you want, and I think that opportunity is what’s fundamentally changed me.”
For Rosales, addressing conflict starts with talking. He said he believes, for the ASI to have a good relationship with students, ASI board members first need a good relationship with each other.
For the student body, Rosales said he would be more careful with conflict and try to rid the students of the apathy they hold toward the campus.
“I would like to have my office hours open as long as possible,” Rosales said. “I don’t want to be seen as above people. I want to be seen as amongst people.”
To continue, Lamborn said the best way to address conflict is through empathy and understanding.
“I really like talking to people, hearing their stories,” Lamborn said. “I would like to connect with the student body on a depersonalized level.”
President Ticket Two:
Roger Muniz and Jasmyne Reyes
Roger Muniz, second-year biochemistry student, said he’s campaigning for president because he has a lot of things he wants to improve around campus and with in the ASI board with his running mate, Jasmyne Reyes for vice president.
“I know for a fact that we’re able and willing to put in the effort,” Muniz said.
Reyes, a second-year biochemistry student, said she is running for student government to amplify student voices and make sure students aren’t isolated from ASI.
To do this, Reyes said she and Muniz want to hold office hours outside of their required and set times.
“In previous administrations, it wasn’t known that any student could walk in and study or just hang out with their student government,” Reyes said.
Muniz said their campaign runs on four focuses: student voices, student organizations, campus beautification and the expansion and promotion of resources.
“ASI, more than any student body on campus, has the power to promote various resources in an extraordinary capacity,” Muniz said.
Reyes is the co-director of event programming and scheduler for the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science Chapter, vice president of the Stem Research Association, stem research chair for Global Medical Brigades, college course fellow at BioTrek and is a mentor for the Science Educational Enhancement Services.
“I love Cal Poly,” Reyes said. “I am Cal Poly basically.”
Reyes said she likes how open and comfortable the current ASI board has made ASI feel to students.
When discussing conflict, Reyes believes ASI members have a responsibility to put aside their personal beliefs and opinions to move forward and create a positive environment for members to fulfill their role for the students.
Reyes said while she nor Muniz has had a position under ASI before, their optimistic outlook and their fresh perspectives on campus and student life could benefit CPP.
“I love Cal Poly, and I love what I do,” Muniz said. “If I get elected, it doesn’t matter what college people come from, how they look like or how they think. They’re the ones I’ll be representing all the same.”
President Ticket Three:
Alejandra Lopez Sanchez and Kimora-Aiko Morley
Alejandra Lopez Sanchez, a third-year political science student, said deciding to run for ASI president wasn’t a decision she took lightly.
“Something that really inspired me was my parents,” Sanchez said. “I come from an immigrant community. My parents left Mexico, and they came to America.”
Sanchez said she hopes to improve the disconnection a lot of students feel with ASI, especially with the frustration students may feel with the slow process of things like budgeting, by hosting town hall meetings in places like the library and other high traffic spots.
Morley, a second-year political science student with a minor in African American studies, said one of the reasons she decided to run for ASI was because she felt underrepresented and unheard in a lot of spaces.
“I’m very passionate about money transparency,” Morley said. “I am concerned about the fact that there’s no public information, clarity or accessibility to see how Cal Poly is investing the different budgets that are approved by administrators.”
Like Sanchez, Morley said she wants to host town hall meetings to address budget transparency and any concerns about what CPP might be investing in that relates to current world events or conflicts. Morley also said she wants to divert from initiatives CPP is involved in students didn’t have any say in.
Sanchez also said students have no idea where the fees they’re paying go, and that makes her feel uneasy. She described it appalling that students don’t have access to learn what CPP is investing in the fees.
“I feel like a lot of students are unheard, unsure of how decisions are made,” Sanchez said. “Considering everything that goes on, all the cuts that the university is facing, they’re never thoughtfully or thoroughly explained, so students are just like, ‘So if we have so much money, where is it going?’”
With Sanchez as her running mate, Morley said their administration hopes to launch a citation forgiveness program that would allow students with citations to be forgiven by completing volunteer hours, specifically at places like the Poly Pantry.
“We as a school always advertise that we’re No. 1 in economic and social mobility, but our current parking situation is very disappointing,” Morley said. “A lot of us are first-generation and low-income students. There’s no reason that our citations should be $80, and you’re threatened with academic holds on your account.”
As the current ASI secretary of student affairs, Sanchez said she’s seen ASI engaging with students more, leading her to be able to talk to more clubs, see what their concerns are and how ASI can try to address them.
Morley said, when elected, ASI members are public servants to CPP students, and ASI should make sure to bridge gaps and meet students where they are.
Through her current role in ASI, Sanchez said she hasn’t seen much conflict within the ASI board itself. But, if she did, she’d handle it with transparency to get to the source of what’s causing the issue.
Sanchez said she believes a lack of transparency is where a lot of the conflict between ASI and the student body comes from.
Understanding a lot of students have political fatigue, Morley said she finds it disappointing there isn’t a lot of trust in government, even on a level as local as a student’s campus. Morley said she thinks this comes from a lack of transparency or lack of knowledge as to what ASI does and what their roles are.
If conflict were to arise in ASI, Morley said she would want to uphold core values of integrity, professionalism, respect and grace. Morley said she’d also lean on ASI professional staff as an important resource and support system.
Voting and Results Information
The voting period began 11 a.m. March 11 and closes 8 a.m. March 19. Students received a link to myBAR through their CPP email and will be able to vote for one president and vice president ticket.
If students have any technical questions or experience issues with online voting, they can reach out to the Bronco Leadership Center representative Anita Roberts at arroberts@cpp.edu.
Following the closing of the voting period and tallying of the votes, ASI will host a reveal party from noon to 1 p.m. March 19 in Ursa Major located in the Bronco Student Center.
Feature image courtesy of Melanie Arias & featured candidates