This is the Reveille’s profile on the 2025 Unite campaign. The Reveille also has profiles for the Foret-Tatman: Forward campaign, Forward campaign and Henderson-Layrisson campaign. You can vote here.

Kelsey Womack and Emma Miller of the Unite ticket are running for student body president and vice president on a platform focused on personability, advocacy, cooperation and the color pink.

Elections will be held March 20 and 21.

Getting to know the candidates

Womack is a political communication junior minoring in political science, and she currently serves as the chair of the Student Senate’s Campus Affairs and Sustainability Committee. She’s also on the leadership team for campus tour guides and serves as president of BridgeLSU. She said these positions have prepared her to listen to and connect with students and staff should she win.

Miller is also in the Senate, having served as vice chair of the Student Life, Diversity and Community Outreach Committee for the past two semesters. A political science junior minoring in sociology, she’s also in LSU’s chapter of Alpha Delta Pi. Additionally, Miller works in the university’s Office of Communications and at an off-campus restaurant.

Purpose

The campaign hopes to connect campus through conversation and stand out from past campaigns, with Miller picking the title “Unite” and Womack picking the color pink to do so. The pair said Beyoncé’s song “Freedom” epitomizes their campaign, which is why they used it in their campaign announcement.

“Yes, we can advocate for students,” Miller said. “But I want to empower students to advocate for themselves too, and I feel like that song – it gets you going. It’s like a rally cry. I want people to all come together and unite for this cause and this mission and these issues we’re facing on campus to really tackle it together.”

One of the changes Womack and Miller hope to guide students through is the dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion programs on campus, calling it the biggest issue students currently face.

Womack said these changes have left many on LSU’s campus confused and unsure of how to advocate for students. To counteract this, they would prioritize educating students and expressing their concern about the removal of DEI.

Goals

The Unite campaign bases its policies on four pillars: collaboration, accessibility, resilience and empowerment. Abbreviated to CARE pillars, the ticket’s policies aim to support students in their lives both on and off campus. Miller said the Unite ticket can achieve changes because they have based their policies on practical action based on their experience in SG.

“It’s easy for candidates to come and say, ‘I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that, I’m going to do this,’ and it’s things that aren’t achievable,” Miller said. “We have a pretty good grasp on what is and isn’t achievable because of our experience in Student Government.”

Collaboration

Unite wants to address some enduring issues students have, like lack of parking and housing, through collaborative efforts with offices and organizations on campus that Womack and Miller said they already have connections to. The pair will also hold monthly meetings with campus leaders to increase communication throughout campus.

The Unite ticket will also create a program called “Adopt a Tiger” to pair international students with a family in Baton Rouge for holidays during the semester, allowing them to celebrate even if they can’t travel home.

Accessibility

The Unite candidates hope to increase the number of parking spots available to students in the Union Square Parking Garage. Womack and Miller plan to work with Parking and Transportation Services to add one more floor of dedicated student parking to the garage, which Womack said will add hundreds of student spots.

The ticket is also looking to improve lighting on campus and in surrounding areas, highlighting the walk from campus to Tigerland. Womack said increasing lighting will improve conditions for both pedestrians and drivers, making LSU much safer.

Womack’s favorite policy is “Too Good to Geaux,” an app that would increase students’ access to food while reducing waste. Womack and Miller would team up with LSU Dining to provide the dining halls’ leftovers to students who otherwise may not have access to food.

Resilience

Miller also hopes to support students in their lives off campus. One resilience initiative she’s most excited for is providing immigrants with documents explaining their rights, called rights cards, following recent deportations.

The candidates also hope to increase access to sexual health resources on campus. This includes condoms and emergency contraception, but also improvements to the university’s response to sexual assault by urging administration to take the matter more seriously.

“We chose resilience because usually campaigns hit really heavily on advocacy or transparency or other buzz words that mean a little bit less to us,” Womack said. “Because those are obviously important, but resilience is all-encompassing, and that’s why we chose that.”

Empowerment

Womack and Miller promise to represent all students on campus, including first-generation students. Womack, a first-generation student herself, said she would work to increase programming, outreach and support for these students by creating an optional course teaching academic skills and financial literacy and providing mentorship in their first years at LSU.

“In this time of life when you’re trying to figure out essentially the rest of your life, I think those students deserve as much support and advocacy efforts as humanly possible to provide resources for them to ensure that the hardest part of their day is finishing their homework,” Womack said.

Message to students

Womack and Miller have shared their message of unity by engaging with students through tabling, messaging through Instagram and even walking up to students in the Quad. Womack wants students to know their ticket is dedicated to hearing their thoughts.

“We want students to come to us,” Miller said. “I want the students to see us write down this issue that they’re facing, and I want to do the best that we can to solve that, whichever way we can.”

The Unite ticket has Senate candidates representing all senior colleges and has amassed almost 200 supporters, including candidates, students and staff, Womack said.

Unite’s campaign policies and updates can be viewed on its campaign Instagram, @womackmiller2025.

The LSU spring elections will be held March 20 and 21.