Cade Desjarlais, Jasper Lorien elected to UBC’s Board of Governors

Cade Desjarlais and Jasper Lorien have both been elected to UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG).

Desjarlais's campaign centred his previous work securing funding for food insecurity, advocating for a multi-year tuition framework and securing mental and sexual health supports across campus as president of UBC Okanagan's student union. He also emphasized his prior experience presenting to UBC’s Board in that capacity.

"I'm very excited to get to work for the students at UBC and to put students first," said Desjarlais after the results announcement.

Desjarlais added that the first thing he's excited to do is invest in more student affordability measures, because "that's what we need right now."

Lorien’s campaign focused on student affordability, increasing needs-based aid, supporting student workers and addressing food insecurity. Currently Arts Student Senator, Lorien was also elected to the one of the highly contested seats in the race for student senator-at-large.

Lorien said it felt "great" to win the BoG spot, and they added the first thing they will do as a BoG representative is "take [their] signs off the lawn."

Desjarlais and Lorien beat out student governance newcomers Yi Chen, Mohkam Singh Malik (ਮੋਹਕਮ), Bardia Mohammadizadeh and Alexander Wong for the two student seats on UBC’s highest governing body.

— With files from Iman Janmohamed

This article is part of our 2025 AMS Elections coverage.

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