The First Year Ambassador program, also known as FYA program, teaches students the structure of the Student Government Association (SGA) at UMBC. It is SGA’s year-long leadership development program that is open to freshmen and first year transfer students. Furthermore, it teaches students how to take advantage of the agency that they have on campus and how to properly navigate fixing any problem that they may identify. This program also introduces students to campus partners that can assist with programming, frames the historical context of initiatives launched by students, and elevates students to student leaders.
A key aspect of the program is the opportunity to shadow both elected and appointed officers in two bodies of the organization, the Legislative and Executive Branches. As a First Year Ambassador, you will have the opportunity to sit in on meetings, assist the officers in their work, and plan events that are large in scale.
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2024-25 First Year Ambassadors:
Abby Etherton
Adjoa Benefo
Alexander Hwang
Arisbeth Valencia
Aryan Srivastava
Ava Brown
Averi Grayson
Diana Renderos
Drishty Vyas
Emmanuel Sampson
Esmeralda Gonzalez
Francheska Burrola
Gouri Gupta
Irene Teye
Jason Blanco
Jeffrey Chu
Jiyon Lee
Joseph Hartlove
Melanie Flores
Nafisa Anjum
Naomi Aruna
Narah Obas
Nneamaka Ibe
Osarumen Michael Egharevba
Quinn Scruggs
Sameera Chaudhry
Sanjana Jain
Sedat Sefik
Sofia Cabrera
Syeed Al Mashrafi
Tayyiba Bari
Victoria Kovtun
Zara Majumder
Zaynab Daugherty