2026/2027 ASSP Elections Candidates
Evan Fish
Why are you campaigning for this position? What are 3-4 specific goals you have for your term?
In nearly four years at Seattle Pacific University (SPU), I have witnessed and fallen in love with the care and passion from students and staff for the relationships and community at SPU. I have also witnessed shortcomings that have led to frustration, accusations, and a downfall in faith in SPU as an institution. I am campaigning for ASSP President because I still see that light of passion here at SPU, and I believe that SPU can be a home of student excellence and community. To support SPU and its student body, my top four goals can be organized into two key areas: student experience and student support.
At its core, ASSP exists to advocate for and uplift students' everyday experiences. A significant priority within this is accessibility, both physical and informational. Students should be able to fully engage in their education and campus life without unnecessary barriers. Reaching this goal includes advocating for improved physical accessibility in classrooms and campus spaces, as well as clearer communication about resources, events, and opportunities available to students. Information should not feel hidden or difficult to navigate, and no student should feel excluded due to a lack of access.
Another essential part of the student experience is community integration and involvement. SPU is home to a diverse range of disciplines, identities, and interests, yet many students still feel isolated or overlooked. I want to promote stronger multidisciplinary engagement and better recognition of student contributions across campus. By encouraging collaboration and highlighting student voices, we can build a more connected and inclusive community where everyone feels they belong.
Beyond the student experience, students need tangible support to succeed during and after their time at SPU. My goal is to improve discipline-specific support by assisting the Center for Career and Calling in developing more inclusive job fairs, clarifying communication about on-campus employment, and designing resources to help students understand the skills needed to thrive at SPU.
Additionally, I want ASSP to be seen as a resource to students and clubs. The ASSP exists for the student body, yet students feel unseen or unheard on campus. By taking steps to give further ASSP visibility with students, current and new, I believe the ASSP can be a voice for the student population at Seattle Pacific University.
Josephine Partridge
Why are you campaigning for this position? What are 3-4 specific goals you have for your term?
Gratitude and passion have driven me to apply for this position. I am very thankful for the blessing of the last few years learning and engaging with the SPU community and feel responsible for using my God given gifts to give back what has been given to me. I am passionate about helping the SPU community grow in the areas that I see potential to support and enhance the student experience on and off campus. I did the same thing for my senior year at Bishop Blanchet Highschool when I was elected and worked as ASB Officer of Sports and Spirit. I thoroughly enjoy working with faculty and administration to bring dreams and groups of people together. My overall purpose, discerned at this point, is to bring people together under one unified goal, sharing joy and love. I am drawn towards work that creates unity amongst large groups of people and I love helping others find and experience joy, hope, and love. Above all this, I do what I do because of my faith in the Lord and commitment to my relationship with Jesus.
​The general goals I have for my term include Unity in Community, Bridging Gaps, and SPU Image from Inside and Outside.
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Unity in Community
I will focus on helping everyone feel seen, appreciated, loved, and supported through various means. I believe this can be best supported by intentionally cultivating the SPU culture with more school spirit, virtuous friendship, community engagement, shared respect, open listening, a drive for success, and a willingness to hope. We have a campus full of so many different backgrounds and everyone has a story to tell. I believe there is more power to be experienced in this through unity of diversity.
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Bridging Gaps
I will bring focus to specific relationships within the SPU community to inspire change. I will work to make commuter students feel equally included and supported alongside residential students. I will bring new light to the relationship students can have with school faculty and administration, encouraging respect, gratitude, curiosity, and an eagerness to get to know each other. I will create spaces of cultural engagement, allowing insight from varying perspectives to be shared and learned from. I feel that this goal is very important and goes right alongside the mission values of SPU. With loneliness being a common trend within colleges, I want to work to build hope and healthy relationships between students and the community around them. It is easy for an individual to forget the power and influence they have to bring joy into a neighbor's life. I want to empower everyone in SPU to step up and make that difference.
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SPU Image Inside and Outside
I hope to help heal and grow the relationship that SPU has with the broader Seattle community as well. I want to support the positive image and influence that SPU has within this city and help the university create a fresh approach to this. I understand this is already something underway with the shifts made and being made from administration. I believe that the work of ASSP can help support this as well. I think students can be given more connections to the Seattle community, and the Seattle community can be welcomed more into the SPU space.
Cassidy McIntire
Why are you campaigning for this position? What are 3-4 specific goals you have for your term?
SPU has a beautifully diverse student population; it is a community that bridges many cultures and faith. Which makes it an incredibly beautiful challenge to represent. I would like to campaign for ASSP president because I believe it is a challenge that is incredibly valuable to face, the tension of representing the students well as well as acknowledging our diversity and differences. My goals as ASSP president would include promoting more collaboration between groups on campus. This has been an ongoing project for ASSP, which I think is important to continue and promote. Embracing the diverse students of SPU and helping build community bridges can be promoted by organizing collaboration. Whether this is between different clubs, or even between different departments. Connecting with the athletics department, Student ministries, clubs and resident life are all equally important and should be done together. Although these things are beginning to happen, I believe it is important to make this a priority as we head into the new school year. Another goal I have is to encourage student involvement in ASSP. ASSP should be resource, and I would like to encourage students to connect with their senators, and learn more about senate and ASSP. This would mean helping with publicity and events to bring about more student engagement, building off of what we have learned that works to bring students attention. One last goal that I have is making SPU feel like home for students. Either commuters or those who live on campus, from people who have never left WA to international students. I have slowly come to consider SPU home and want SPU to be part of what other students consider home as well. Being someone students can come and talk to, bring ideas to and help them realize these ideas would be a goal of mine as ASSP president. In other words, one goal I would set for myself personally as ASSP president is to open and engaged with my fellow students, building off of the things I have learned from my own experience with ASSP and from other leaders on campus.
