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Camron Goodman is the President of the University of Texas Student Government. He is a senior Finance major from the city of legends, Dallas, TX. Cam is devoted to paying forward the good graces he has seen in life. His friends and peers can\u2019t help but believe in him, as he approaches every task from a place of genuine care and enthusiasm. Camron Goodman is a good man (\u2026that\u2019s an example of a Cam-level joke). His own struggles allowed him to develop a sense of compassion and a commitment to empowering all voices he comes across. While his jokes are a hit or miss, his heart is batting at 100\u2026<\/p>\n

Camron is committed to providing the tools to write your story in UT\u2019s history and welcomes anyone who is inspired to do the same.<\/p>\n

Amie Jean is the Vice President of the University of Texas Student Government. She is a senior repping Houston, Texas ( MoCity or No City) and she is thrilled to be the Vice President of a UT x herself and her peers. Amie studies Finance and African & African Diaspora Studies. She jokes that she has also taken informal classes at the school of hard knocks where she majored in Amie.<\/p>\n

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Amie\u2019s heart is tied to several communities on campus: she grew in spaces and with groups like Gateway Scholars, University Leadership Network, Guides of Texas, the Multicultural Engagement Center, and Texas Orange Jackets. Amie thinks your voice being seen and heard is critical for a purpose-driven experience here at UT and is excited to work with you!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Welcome Alive. Leadership, Innovation Ventures and Entrepreneurship, a podcast
\n\ue5d4
\nthat showcases the talents, skills and abilities of U.T. faculty, staff and students.
\nI’m your host, Brandon Jones, associate director for Student Learning and Development in Housing and Dining.
\nAnd we’re excited to have you listening to us.
\nFirst off, I’m glad to have both of you on the show and in the same room at the same time, because I’ve interacted with both
\nof you in separate spaces throughout the course of the year since you all have been elected. It’s been a while since
\nI’ve had both of you. So one of things I want to give you all a chance to do. Both of you to introduce yourself.
\nTell the folks where you from, what year you are your major, and then we’ll dove into
\nsome questions that gap for you. So either one of you go first.
\nCamerawoman, student body president from Dallas, Texas. You know,
\nyou know the senior finance major.
\nGo ahead. Say it. You’ll do good. You know, I wouldn’t like who’s gonna go first.
\nBecause I was taught to be humble, but I’m armies on student government. Vise president
\ngonna read it loud for Houston, Texas, a star currently
\nresiding in most city or no city. But I’m with, you know.
\nOh, my goodness. I’ve already. But this on air. On
\nair, too, right? So you’ll make the jury work like we’ve been trying to do this semester.
\nI even forgot to get quercetin exactly the way I usually see myself.
\nMajor, so I’m in my fifth year finance major coal miner and African
\nand African diaspora studies. Wonderful ones. He’s on the campaign trail. We used to always do to
\njust rebel city right by in the crowd. So
\nso let’s let’s let’s talk about that. I’m not going to miss it. I want this. I left
\ninto the footage. So there’s this thing that happens at u._t. Where the Houston students
\nand the Dallas code, is it real like this? Does this beef does the Houston
\nDallas beef really exist? The people want to know if the Cold War.
\nThere’s nothing to it is worth an idea. I think care, but it was a good representation of that.
\nAs much as I’m like, what is he really talking about when he said Dallas, I’m like, oh, you know it. We’ve been
\nworking pretty well together. Like, maybe, maybe the beef is a rumor.
\nBut now when we get comments back from the listeners
\nuntil I die, you die. You know, they
\nhave changed. It’s like watching,
\nobserve, observed. Be ready to just comment. Oh, no. Dallas, though. I
\ndo. They. Well, listen, I got a couple questions for you all since you’ve been
\non that list. Now you’re good. So, you know, it’s been over a year since you all were on the campaign
\ntrail. And I know that the campaign trailing is happening right now for quite a few people. In fact,
\none of my students in my class was literally sent me an email today. She was freaking out because
\nlike, hey, she’s gonna run for office. And so I was like, that’s interesting. I’m going to interview
\nCameron and Army. So what are things I want to talk about is how’s life been since
\nbeing elected and taking office and working? Because, you know, your time
\nis coming to an end. And so we just want to hear, what’s it been like this year?
\nAflac. That’s a broad question. I’m not sure how you answer it. I was thinking
\nabout this earlier today when sitting with or having an appointment
\nwith someone. I think my life I recognize how important
\nteam work is. And this is beyond a utility like, oh, OK, I need a person to do this
\nthing for me or with me. But then how do I find people that are going to build me up?
\nSo finding those voices on campus as well as finding the people who could
\npush are where? Our platform points that help support.
\nI think that’s what I learned the most about tall siblings, right. So I was like, you know what? Maybe teamwork
\nis not for me. You love your family, but there’s that. I think I’ve had enough of you. But then
\nI’m just kidding. I value all of the ways that this was so crucial to
\nI am today, just like I see the campus working together, different entities working together.
\nThey see the things we’re planning come to fruition. That has been the first
\nthing that came to mind. I must say, is probably my favorite part about this position. Awesome. Awesome. What about your camera
\nis it’s. It’s been fun. Lately, I’ve had people ask me, like, how many hours you spent day
\nin student? It’s a Full-Time job. It is
\nat least 40, 40 plus hours a week you put in student government, whether that’s meetings
\nor like on the side, doing light projects and calling
\npeople and meeting with people and stuff like that. And I’ll tell you what’s on. Like, if you do
\nthis position for the wrong reasons, then you’re not gonna like the job at all. You’re not gonna like the job at all
\nif you’re doing it for the wrong reasons. So you gotta make sure you do it for the right reasons. And it’s a constant check.
\nAnd I’m excited about the stuff that we get to do. I’m excited to see
\nlike all the student leaders that I get to partner up with because we are so phenomenal student leaders on campus
\nand they’re doing phenomenal things. And, you know, part of our whole platform was to support those people. Not
\nnot to be the ones that have student government be that that organization
\nthat takes control of all the great initiatives, but support those
\npeople who are doing these great initiatives and being able to be that person and be able to serve
\nand having this position be a avenue for that has been very, very rewarding. Awesome.
\nYou bring up an interesting point about being involved. I’ve got two questions for you. I start with
\nthe most pressing win. Why I’m being U.T. students definitely
\nhave this sense of involvement. I’ve noticed that since my two and a half years of being here, U.T. students
\nlove getting involved. But to the point where it can almost come across
\nas overinvolvement because there’s so many different things to do. You can also be way a September party on
\nthe plaza and it’s like I want a flyer for everything because I want to I want to do everything.
\nWhat’s your advice for not just those current students, but also incoming students who may be
\nlistening to this episode, trying to figure out, you know, what what’s what’s gonna be there first thing
\nthat they’re gonna get involved in or for those students who may be listening, trying to figure out, you know, what are the things that
\nthey need to do less of? Well, she was a vise for involvement, specifically here at u._t.
\nAnother one. Incoming students get the free food and the free to
\nme, my this is so she said, I’ll be your first two weeks at college. You should be habit to
\nbuy yourself dinner. If you don’t the say, somebody is going to have a party, a little free food. I was like, you know
\nwhat? Let me go and try these things. And I think being open because I think, like you said,
\ninvolved a lot of us. We come in already knowing where we like to be in leadership.
\nBut one thing I challenge myself to do freshman year was, okay, let me put myself in spaces
\nthat I don’t see myself, that maybe I like it, maybe I won’t, but I wouldn’t know unless I tried it.
\nSo when it’s like how people say, oh, colleges or like when you’re younger, you have more
\nagency to just try these things, you have less responsibilities. So I would say don’t rush to
\nget responsibilities that will take your time or will take more from you.
\nThen you’re ready to give up. I like that. And I agree. I say when you’re looking
\nat organizations are getting involved on campus, think about things that you always had an interest in but never had the time
\nto do. I mean, campus has, what, 13 plus organizations
\nplus. Yeah. Plus, it’s a lot. And there’s something for you
\nand being able to be plugged into things that you like. I say a hobby
\nor something you never had time to do. Interest in plug in again to those things
\nthat’s going to that’s going to help your campus experience. That’s awesome. You talk about food. That’s the number
\none reason why I work in housing. I’ll get me wrong.
\nI love my job. When my boss told me on the phone, when he called me, he offered
\na job and was like, oh, yeah. And, you know, we know you like food. And I was like, say, let’s say
\nyou forgot to say that the last May. Let’s talk about the Mediterranean so you get
\nthis balloon situation, right. So shout out to Dr. Kirksey. Let’s talk about
\nthe other question that I have for you all. Was the legislation like what has been
\nthat piece of legislation that when your time is up and you look back and you say,
\nI’m most proud of what is one of those pieces of legislation for you? I’m not gonna lie.
\nMy other comment there, there’d be a there’d be a board. Yeah, but one, I really was excited.
\nTo see is when we did take a stand on development in Riverside and it was
\nvery. How do we did what we could in our
\nposition? And I thought that as the height of what it means to be in our positions,
\nto be able to communicate that to the mayor, we don’t know whether he’s going to take it or do anything with
\nit. But just being able to do that, I think it. Representation
\nas college students. I think that was probably earlier early in our term, the peak.
\nMe feel like, oh, wow, we are involved. We are hard. Right. And that legislation
\nwas brought up very organically. That wasn’t something that mean army were like, oh, let’s do. But those that
\nwas birthed because of two students, again, like students are stepping up soon. I want to be involved and want to take a stand. Those
\nbrought about two students who came to our office say, hey, this is what’s going on. And, you know, we didn’t have a chance
\nto make our voice be ours. I can we do that? We wrote the legislation in support
\nof the city of Austin, really thinking about affordable housing for college students, especially for low income
\nstudents. Right. And then we took that same legislation and we went to city hall and we protested
\nand we spoke in front of city hall before they made that vote. And so that was a very powerful moment
\nbecause. Sometimes this position you can make. You can get
\nstuck into like on campus and stuff like that, but to be able to step out
\nand be on the ground with the students is an expert. One of my top experience
\nhere. This like when campaigning we say U.T. by you, like this is
\nyour vision. And I thought that was a very clear example, as I might say. Oh, you know what?
\nutm by me looks like U.T. leadership paying more attention to this, being able to exercise
\nthat. That was probably one of my favorite pieces. It looks
\nlike she said we got one coming up. I don’t know. She wants to. I know. I know.
\nYou know that. I wouldn’t say that. I think you said it to do it. I’m really, really.
\nAnother piece of legislation that’s coming up with presses hot off the presses here. Yeah.
\nYeah. This place is exclusive. Is the one in
\nsupport of establishing a memorial for the precursors.
\nOnce you tell the listeners what the pro the precursors are and why that’s important. Right. So the precursors
\nare first class of black undergraduate students.
\nSo I think it was two thousand nights or two years ago when we had the 60 year anniversary
\nof the precursors. And it just to her,
\nyou know, history in the making and we don’t really think of that phrase often recognizing that
\nwe are our ancestors greatest dreams. This is
\nsomething that we are not. Not only are we not alone doing, but
\njust like who’s watching, who went before us. And I think that’s one of my
\nfavorite parts about leadership. Just being able to pay it forward. And Cameron has
\nheard me say the nine times, if you want to go, if you want to go
\nfast, go alone. If you want to go far, go to get back. Yeah. So I’m excited about seeing
\nthat come to fruition. Yeah, for sure. I’m proud of that. Like that’s
\nthat’s that’s huge. And I really appreciate the fact that you all have put
\nthat out there. I do think that that’s something that we need. And I’m really proud to say that.
\nI know. Yeah, it’s a job that I get to years later when these things comes out
\nand when this monument ultimately comes to fruition, because I believe it will
\nit’ll be good to be able to see you all come back after you graduated in company. K shim
\nin that a wait list. Hey, hey, hey. Oh, you’re going to
\nbe here for that. I have. So another
\nthing that I wanted to bring up now that you mentioned the precursors is
\nthe weight that you too may or may not feel. Being black
\nexists in student government because you’re standing awesome. It’s awesome shoulders
\nand not many, but you stand an awesome shoulders. I mean, you like it in terms of do you feel
\ndo you feel that weight? Do you feel like, wow, we’re representing the how many when,
\nwhen. But like what? Three or four black exists before you in the presidency, especially
\nhow it was what Darren Roberts. And then. And that was in the 90s when it was 2000. I was 2000,
\nthe early 2000s. And then before him. Were there any. There was
\nthere were two black women. Vise president, I. I see. So you’re the third
\nthrough a good number. I would like to think, but. Because it’s not a fact. That’s I guess, some guys. And then
\nthere was a black president before Derek. And I think there was a black male vise president
\nafter after the first black man president. We had to go in. That’s OK. And
\nwe’re going to fact find and we’ll figure that out. And I’ll cut that into the three of route.
\nThe Black. Your book. Working on that. You’ve probably already got that. OK. OK. Shout out to Adrian.
\nWhat do you all feel? A pressure. A weight in light of that?
\nIn light of that legacy. To be. Yes. For me, for me.
\nDefinitely, I feel like a way. I feel like more like not necessarily
\na way, but a. Increase, Folke, is to do the best that I can.
\nFor those that will come after him and I
\nyou know, I haven’t got a chance to have the conversation with people like Darren and stuff like that
\nabout this, but I’m pretty sure if you ask them the same question, I’m pretty sure they’ll say the same thing.
\nI mean, me, me, me. We didn’t go into this. I mean, in the back of our minds,
\nwe knew that the the history that. What happened if
\nwe were elected into these positions being the first all black? You don’t know that we were
\nno longer anything. No, I don’t know. SALES. SALES. The back. My head. Yeah. Yeah.
\nBack in my head. I thought about it. No idea. When I thought that you two were running, I’m like, man,
\nthis is this is his story. Yes, I did. I noticed Yotsuba both finance mate. Yeah. Both
\nparties, majors and yobbo and brought down a huge team together.
\nSo now is it back? Like, wait a minute. Yalla yalla representing wakeboarding, you might. Yeah. So
\nI was curious as to whether or not that had a certain amount of pressure or. Oh.
\nSo it’s interesting. I felt the pressure. I thought Cam’ron had more positives. YouthWorks
\nlike this is why we’re going to work our hardest. And this is why we’re doing all this. I think this is where
\ngood TV comes out preemptively like. Kimmerer Don’t breathe too loud here.
\nYou know, I thought I was really on my tippy toes from LOBET until,
\nlike I said, advisor’s leadership for like, I’ll meet you. You’ll be fine here. And if you won’t.
\nYou’re not alone. I think that’s even BFE say support. When everybody stood up after
\nthat conversation saying, hey, we got your back. I’m like, oh, you gotta be a PSA blackheads
\npresident. This is co-presidents. I thank you. Appreciate that. Black faculty
\nstaff said yes, yes, yes. But yes. So I think that
\nwe had understood, but only in the ways that we can quantify
\nthe unquantifiable ways where I ran into a freshman who said I cried, tears came to my eyes
\nand had gone to Texas. When I saw you and Cameron on stage, I said, shoo. A couple days
\nago, we talked about how there’s a lot of campaigns running,
\nabout 8 teams now running in. A couple of days ago, we were at the I was at the Black Caucus.
\nThis was a town hall for our black students here on campus. And I was there and
\nI ran into Brianna, who’s the president? A Triple H.
\nDo y’all know which I did? Macra. It is moments
\nlike those that you can kind of get lost in the grind of working and stuff
\nlike that. You like you doing something? I told the team this Monday, actually, I told the team this Monday, to
\nbe honest with ya. I told the team this past Monday and exact me that I was I was feeling discouraged.
\nI was feeling discouraged. It is because you get the grind of things you don’t see or you work. We’re moving
\ninto like the end of it. I’m looking trying to look back, say, okay, what do we do? You know, what do we do?
\nAnd Brianna, the next day told me that I was like, wow. Like
\nlike, yeah, it takes those it takes those moments like this
\nIDR realized, which I did. Yeah. Yeah. And that’s what’s exciting to me being on the
\nstaff side. And I know that we don’t we don’t get to endorse national elections
\nor student. And so we have to remain very objective and unbiased
\nin it. And so for me, watching the processes happen from beginning to end for
\neveryone who’s running, I looked up. And when you all won, one of the first things
\nI told TFSA, I said there on the agenda and because it’s because it’s co president elect
\nand BFA say you’re responsible for the agenda of the meeting. And so for me, I’m like, let’s
\nget them in here. Like, let’s start hearing from students. So we had Texas onix and then we were like, let’s get more students.
\nAnd so I had yesterday’s meeting. I looked up and I told Desmarais, I said, there’s
\nmore stuff, students at a B.F. essay. I mean, we never get that. And then I said, I want that to continue.
\nBut that started last year. But then also, I look at the number
\nof black students and students of color who are running this year like I don’t know them
\nall. Yeah, but yes, I’ve been paying attention because I’m all social media very actively.
\nDr. J-O-N Zie 8 for Instagram and I
\nhave lost count of the number of black students and students of color who
\nare running for office. And I’m like, I have never seen this before. And I’ve worked at
\nthree large public institutions and I’ve never seen this one of those things even that I
\ndidn’t even really take into account that. Some
\nnice. Yeah. There I’ll be. I’ve been walking around campus because I make because of this podcast.
\nI’ve made it a point to kind of walk around and read the texts and every day and
\nI’m looking for let’s let students are up to and I’ve been walking around campus and I’m seeing students recording
\ntheir videos and getting their pressers out there. And and I’m just amazed
\nat the different groups who well, they were inspired by. You all are not
\npeople that I’ve seen entering this election spectrum now. Like what? What’s
\nlike that’s crazy. And those groups that historically may have never voted or participated
\nthat go into the next year. Like I’m I’m amazed. I’m excited. Yeah, I’m excited about it. That’s awesome.
\nSo we got a couple of minutes left in this episode. And I want to give you two a chance
\nto kind of talk about anything that you want to just get out there and let the
\nstudents know if you want to encourage that next exac or that that future
\nexact that you can inspire if you want to drop some words of wisdom to them these next
\nfive minutes of yours. I will say is rank everybody when you vote
\nor else your vote doesn’t count. So if that’s your role, I think
\nas. Educated voter, you should look into people’s platform points.
\nYou can have your favorite, your friend that you might rank first because you want to rank them first
\nrather than because you read on the platform points. But go through read all the platform points because if
\nthey don’t end up winning, you want to be able to hold people accountable when they said they were
\ngoing to do. That’s my recommendation for students as it relates to alecks. Thank you for pointing that
\nout because one of the goals of this podcast is to also take the learning to our students,
\nbecause I don’t think every student reads the texts in our every state, doesn’t it? You know, no, this process.
\nAnd so if you got other electoral points that you want to put out there, I think
\nthat that’s fantastic. So you heard it. Here is the voting March 2nd or 3rd. So March 2nd and 3rd.
\nAre the elections that’s coming up here real soon? I’ll soon start looking at your candidates. Start
\nattending the town halls in. Yeah. Anything else? I’d say just be involved
\nand be involved, whether that’s you again in the election campaign
\nseason. Look at these people. These are people that are going to lead the student body. These are people that
\nare representative as stood by President Vise president. We get put on a lot of committees that represent
\nthe student voice, big and small to campus safety, to
\nmeetings with the president, the university to meetings with dean of students
\nand vise presidents and affairs like we meet with the ministry is a lot trying to give them that stone perspective. And
\nso if you want your voice to be heard. I mean, the person that you elect is very crucial
\nin exemplifying that voice. So be involved in that way. Also, I mean,
\nthink about being involved in student government as well. There’s so many different opportunities in student government.
\nYou don’t have to have previous student government experience. You don’t have to be a student government for if
\nyou’re in high school, it’s a whole different ballgame. Either way, just be involved. I mean,
\nfinance majors, if you are liberal arts major. If you are engineering.
\nIt doesn’t matter. You all have skill sets, thing and dreams
\nand visions of how you want to change campus and a student government. Well, we try to do it this year and make that space
\nfor all from every part of campus, from every community campus to really come in and
\nand advocate for and to fight for what you want to believe in. Want and even expand
\non your point outside of student government. Your life here on campus, who you are.
\nIf Cameron and I could do anything for you or my hope is like I mean, I care about the tangible
\ndeliverables, but more than anything else, I hope we inspired you to do your
\nown things. That’s what we’re about by you. Examine your own thing
\nand bring that forward. Well, however. However, I don’t know my
\noh, cabinet first this and that. Sure, we’re an inspiration, but
\nI don’t think we have to be. I think anything we can inspire you. That’s that’s our goal
\nis to inspire you to do your thing. Yeah. I can’t. Um. How are you? Yeah. To
\nempower you to. Yeah. Not make this not conform to this campus, man. Make this camp do this. You’re
\nright. So is that we’re on the new live in the long haul life shirts that you
\ndo you or ya ya tell the media. Probably a clue is that you know it’s
\nbecause I was wondering about that because this morning because every Friday is Longhorn Friday
\nhere at the University of Texas. Got an orange with the Longhorn like got a rocky orange
\nwherever way you came. Hey, hey, hey, look, look. I see that
\none of the things that I like about that is a first out at me. And some colleagues
\nwere talking and we were like, what do they mean by you? Do you like I get what they go for? But like, let’s
\nlet’s unpack that. And this morning, as I was getting dressed, because I’m like, I gotta teach a class a day, I do the podcast.
\nAnd when I put my tweet out because I try to tweet every Friday for Longhorn Friday, I was like, I’m living a longer
\nlife my way. Yeah. I was like, yeah. I said, I get it. I see what you did now.
\nThank you. I actually taught also nature that day. So that’s actually pretty cool. But yeah, I look
\nat our love like here in it. Y’all might have had a little something to say. So
\nhey, would you put that your subconscious and move forward? It
\nproduced something. I go claim it. Follow you. You
\nknow I love it. Well, listen, thank you both for taking time. I know y’all got very busy schedules,
\nbut I’m really excited about having you are here and you all have done an amazing
\njob with the student government this year. And I’ve seen you both doing
\nyour thing all over campus. And from a distance, I’m just standing back, just so proud. So thank
\nyou all for the work that you’ve given and hope to have another opportunity to have you back.
\nWhen we talk about the pre-cursor as my day, so we managed to exist to make that
\nused to bring me here to listen. If the opportunity presents itself, we will make that
\nhappen. So you heard it here first. Here signing off. Thank you.
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