Anaya for CCA

Re-elect Anaya for CCA Chair!

I’m Anaya, a SPIA junior minoring in Environmental Studies and Spanish, and I’m coming to the end of my term as your 2026 USG Campus & Community Affairs chair. I am once again running to serve as CCA Chair because our committee has been the most fulfilling commitment I’ve had throughout my time at Princeton, from freshman year to now. Some of my other campus involvements include serving as EcoReps Outreach Coordinator, Rocky College Council Secretary, an Outdoor Action leader, and a PSEC Program Chair. It would be my honor to continue bringing joy, exploration, and connection beyond Princeton’s gates to our undergrad experience.

Experience

As CCA chair, I have significantly increased programming, with 27 Tigers in Town partnerships and 23 Trips under my leadership thus far, up from 18 and 15, respectively, last year.

I have used your survey responses to inform the timing of our registration drops, ensured consistent presence in weekly USG newsletters, and set $5 and $50 per person caps on Tigers in Town and Trips programming, respectively, so students can participate without competitive registration.

I’ve prioritized intentionality in our programming by hosting Tigers in Town partnerships specific to holidays such as Women’s History Month, as well as by ensuring that the vast majority of our trips are of cultural, not just commercial value, with the example of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

I’ve worked with TPS to establish USG Lyft Business and Enterprise CarShare accounts to improve our transportation efficiency and ensure University compliance for the sake of student safety.

I have also served as an advocate for dietary inclusivity by increasing the value of vouchers in our past Tigers in Town partnership with Sakrid to cover the additional cost of non-dairy milks, covering the upcharges on vegan & gluten-free options at the Baked Bear, and starting dialogue with new businesses, like HotBirds, to begin offering vegan options with the incentive of future partnerships.

Arts

One organization CCA has worked extensively with is the Arts Council of Princeton. Under my administration, we have built upon our existing partnerships for the Spring Art Bazaar, Fall Sauce for the Goose art market, and Porchfest. We launched the Crafting Connections Program to allow students to work directly with local artisans and hosted the Campus Creators Program to platform student artists at our annual booths. We also partnered with student groups, such as TigerTale, to produce custom pins for each of these events, as well as independent student artists to design stickers for our most recent Sauce for the Goose market. By hosting activities like Snap the Bazaar! in the Spring and Passport to the Goose in the Fall, we have grown student engagement from 145 attendees in Fall 2025, to 166 and then 250 over my term.

This year, Porchfest took on a unique format, after weather cancellations saw it moved to the Fall and then indoors. We were able to preserve our platforming of student performers through outreach and collaboration with Coffee Club, which speaks not only to the value of on-campus partnerships, but to my ability to respond efficiently, pivot when needed, and dedicate myself to seeing things through for the benefit of the student body.

Partnerships

Under the CCA Partnerships Council, I have worked on a variety of initiatives that I hope to continue developing as your chair.

For example, to alleviate the timing pressures of Farmers’ Market voucher distribution, I have steadily increased the number of vouchers offered per week to 200, in line with our average student demand.

I’ve also invested in the details needed to make our collaborations run smoothly by purchasing items such as laminated Farmers’ Market vouchers, Vendor Partner signs for our art markets, and a USG tablecloth for improved visibility at student events, which came in handy when I tabled at all 3 Princeton Preview events this Spring to welcome the class of 2030 to our community.

In terms of transportation, I revamped the Student Chauffeur Program to create more cost-efficient opportunities for student trips, and I piloted the Religious Transit Program in the Spring to improve affordability for students commuting to off-campus houses of worship. With the feedback I received from participants, I have been blueprinting an updated structure for the program, which I hope to launch around the end of the semester.

Finally, this semester I created a task force of students to design the Princeton Rewards Program, which is an idea I devised my freshman year. Like Tigers in Town, the goal of the program is to incentivize students to shop local, but it will uniquely reward exploration in a variety of categories from food & drink to miscellaneous, addressing the feedback that you all would like us to expand our collaborations to non-restaurant businesses like local consignment stores.

I hope to win your support for re-election as Campus and Community Affairs Committee Chair!