A huge congratulations to our Students’ Union Representative Avery Greatorex who after a hard-fought campaign, has been elected as the new NUS VP of Liberation and Equality
Here’s what Avery had to say:
“I am the next elected Vice-President of Liberation and Equality at the National Union of Students. And we won in the first round, meaning we got 42% of the vote!
“I have spent the last few weeks doing something that really doesn’t happen enough in the national student movement, I actually talked to the students. With 96 reps contacted, 18 meetings held and thousands of people engaging with my social media content I am confident that I now have a good understanding of the current state of our movement. And the one thing I heard more than anything else during these engagements was that our amazing reps, often unpaid, do not feel appreciated by their universities, unions or the national union. We are failing our reps nationally and this decisive victory has signalled that reps agree.
“Our national movement is spending too much time in meeting rooms (including online) talking “about actions that never materialise. My mandate, placed upon me by our national reps is going to turn this around. Get ready for campaign strategy sprint days, co-produced campaigns and a National Union of Students that actually gives students the training, resource and opportunities to tell their own stories to the people that need to hear them most. We are about to get loud.
“The era of hopelessness in student liberation politics ends now, but I need your help.
“This movement is not my movement, I do not own it and I don’t want to. As your Vice-President of Liberation and Equality elect, I am not going to wait for my term to start to hear from you, we start now. If you’re a liberation rep, activist or someone who feels invisible despite facing the impossible under impossible circumstances, message me, email me or find me online. I want to hear from you; we are going to shape this movement from day zero.
“The work starts before day one, hopelessness ends now.”
This is a significant achievement not only for Avery, but for our entire student community. Winning in the first round with 42% of the vote is a clear and decisive mandate, reflecting the strength of Avery’s message and the trust placed in her by student representatives across the country.
We are incredibly proud to see one of our own stepping into such an influential national role, and we look forward to supporting Avery as she begins this important work.
Congratulations again, Avery, we can’t wait to see what you achieve.
