The first round of voting for the 2025-2026 co-presidents narrowed the field to four pairs. The Phillipian interviewed a member of each, where they spoke about their candidacy and their goals for the upcoming year. Voting will continue with the second round taking place this Friday, determining the two final pairs.
Anny Wang ’26, running with Frank Hu ’26
“Our two big themes are transparency and also equity. One of the biggest things that carries through these two goals is our grading fairness initiative. We believe that the goal of this school is to motivate students to learn genuinely and without transparency, consistency, and equity in the grading process students can get frustrated…We are also trying to build a club bank where even really small clubs can have the same chance of getting funding as other clubs that have been around for multiple years. There are so many different ways to get funding on campus and usually, there’s only a portion of these funding sources like department funding or CaMD funding that goes to clubs. We want to collect that portion all together into one big fund dedicated to clubs… We’re really passionate about the school, and we are really passionate and observant people about the issues surrounding the school… Since we’ve been working as student council class reps, we know how to talk to adults and people on campus, and we know the resources and how to throw really big events,” said Wang.
Tina Phan ’26, running with Papa Paintsil ’26
“It’s important that we talk about beyond Andover, what sort of things we’ll remember, what sort of careers you might be interested in, the kind of high school memories you want to have, or the kind of input that you want to be able to say that you had on your experience in high school… One of our initiatives is career day, so one day in the winter term we’re going to have opt-in student workshops led by alumni and various clubs on campus for students to be able to explore some of their passions that they might have outside of high school… We’re people who are extremely invested in Andover as a culture and as a community. We both are prefects and in our respective dorms, we learned a lot about what it means to foster culture and community. In a way, being prefects in such large dorms serves as a microcosm for what it’ll take as co-president to foster culture and community and as positive a way as possible,” said Phan.
Isabella Mazzi ’26, running with Maurice Ntoro ’26
“Our campaign touches on different aspects of campus. We have activities like World Food Day that really bring together different cultures and communities on campus. We’re also trying to work on more student involvement, especially with [All-School Meeting], community involvement in the ASM committee, and involvement with your school and influence on the school for everybody in the school, not just necessarily student council… We also have parts of our campaign that focus on convenience, like convenience and ease of daily life in the school like the to-go meal options and having fun as well, with the winter term revamp,” said Mazzi.
Philip Meng ’26, running with Gracie Aziabor ’26
“We are focusing on the smaller nuances or the inconveniences that surround student life because we think that those are things we could reasonably get done within our one year… Our entire platform centers around this theme of making your daily life at Andover more convenient and streamlined so that you have more time to connect with those around you and do the things that you want to do… The add/drop process is a little bit outdated. It’s something we wanted to streamline through a digital platform… We recognize that EBI is important, but currently, a lot of students are displeased with how it’s run. Only 15.3 percent of students have found the EBI curriculums to be effective, so we want to basically make it so there’s increased interactivity and engagement through a ninth and tenth-grade advisory board… We want there to be the utmost transparency and communication throughout this process,” said Phillip.
