Travis Emerson was elected student trustee with 49.88% of the 425 votes cast.

He defeated Hannah Rosenkrantz, Sadikshya Khanal and Adonai Baptista, who received 24.23% and 13.64% and 12.23% of the vote, respectively. The student trustee is elected by a combined vote of undergraduate and graduate students.

“I have become very attached to the UMass campus during my time here. The values of the faculty and staff, as well as the community among students, are unlike anything I’ve seen or heard of anywhere else,” Emerson wrote in his bio for The Mass Media. “ I want to provide an emphasis on how important the voices of all students are, especially when it comes to making change.

Sarah Velez and Simone Trainor were elected president and vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government on Friday with 62.6% of the vote.

They defeated presidential candidates Grayson Pelletier and Eli Hochkeppel and vice presidential candidates Diana Reynoso and Hannah Rosenkrantz. The Pelletier-Reynoso ticket received 22.09% of the vote. Hochkeppel and Rosenkrantz received 15.29%.

353 undergraduate students cast votes, a 15% increase over last year’s turnout.

The race was the most contested since at least 2020, a Mass Media review of election results found. Two tickets ran in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. The 2023 race was uncontested.

Shreevats Pandey and Netri Faldu were nominated for president and vice president, but did not obtain the 50 signatures required to appear on the ballot.

Sai Sanviti Siddareddy was elected vice president of the Graduate Student Government, defeating former USG President Christelle Joseph 39-33.

Simran Pattnaik was elected president of the Graduate Student Government with 76% of the 72 votes cast.

She defeated Vansh Khokhani, who received 16 votes.

Pattnaik was also elected GSG secretary with 75% of the vote. In that race, Pranjal Haldankar received 13.88% and Shloka Thakur received 11.11%. Pattnaik will be required to choose between the two offices.

Correction: Pattnaik uses she/her pronouns.

Everyone who appeared on the ballot in the uncontested race for the USG Senate were elected on Friday.

Yairamar Oropeza, Dev Joshi, Udipti Unnati Tandan, Stephanie Aboagye, Sei Wilkinson, Nikol Kamenova, Prisha Shah, Shahed Ananzeh, Meakaela Disanka, Adonai Baptista, Annie Kebadze and Anna-Maria Chelidze will all serve in the Senate next year.

Because fewer than the maximum number of Senators were elected, the body will hold a special election in the fall to fill its ranks.

Last year, just five students ran for the Senate in the regular election.

Follow along live as The Mass Media publishes results from the 2026 student government elections.

The Mass Media invited all candidates for student trustee and Undergraduate Student Government president, vice president and senator to submit bios and photographs for this publication. Click here to read about the candidates in their own words.

Campaign season begins this week after nominations to compete in the Spring Graduate and Undergraduate Student Government election closed March 22.

Undergraduate students will elect a president, vice president and senators, while graduate students pick a president, vice president and treasurer. All members of the student body will elect a student trustee, who is charged with representing UMass Boston on the Board of Trustees that oversees all campuses in the UMass system. Each campus designates a student trustee to attend board meetings and provide updates to their campus. One campus’s student trustee has voting power each year, on a rotating basis.

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