Aku Ammah-Tagoe ’11, Nikhil Basu Trivedi ’11 and Alex Rosen ’11 have been voted finalists in the Young Alumni Trustee primary election, Associate Director of Alumni Education Leslie Rowley announced in an e-mail to candidates Friday afternoon.
A total of 31 seniors ran in the primary election, which was open to members of the Class of 2011. This year, 689 seniors voted in the primary, the highest level of participation since 2005, when 708 votes were cast. Last year, 585 seniors voted.
The three finalists will move on to the general election, set to run from April 20 to May 18, which will be open to members of the classes of 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
The winning candidate, who will be announced in May, will join the 40-member Board of Trustees for a four-year term beginning on July 1.
YATs attend five general meetings per year in addition to committee meetings and participate as full voting members of the board.
The current YATs are Josh Grehan ’10, Elizabeth Dilday ’09, Meaghan Petersack ’08 and Jim Williamson ’07. Williamson’s term on the board will end this year.
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