INSPIRE TICKET

Inspire SG campaign aims to address safety, mental health and community

BY CORBIN ROSS @CorbinRoss5

Political communication junior Byron Hansley and biological sciences junior Amber Salone are running for student-body president and vice president under the Inspire ticket.

Hansley said their religious faith was what motivated them to run. He said they aim to make an impact, regardless of whether they win or lose, and that he wants his campaign to inspire people to make changes around LSU’s campus.

“This is not a campaign,” Hansley said. “This is a movement.”

Hansley said he considers his campaign a movement because they’ve already been doing work around campus and aim to continue that work regardless of the election’s outcome.

Salone said her and Hansley work as one unit. Any decision they make will be done cooperatively, she said.

“Me and Byron, we work as one. Everything we ever do is a collective decision,” Salone said. “We believe in each other equally.”

Hansley said he began his time in Student Government on the Freshman Leadership Council. He serves now as the director of finance for the executive branch of SG.

Hansley has other roles on campus. He’s the training associate chair of LSU Ambassa-

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dors, the vice president of the African American Cultural Center Ambassadors. He’s also the vice president and social action and service chair of the Iota Tau chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and is a President Millennial

Scholar.

Hansley also served as the student ex officio on the A.P. Tureaud Sr. Black Alumni chapter board, where he said he represented the interests of underrepresented students.

Salone also got her start in SG on the Freshman Leadership Council. She was the assistant director of the community relations department of the execu-