For one calendar year, Amelia Hill has been the Associated Student Government
president at City College. City College students elected a new ASG president on May 23, and La Toya Daniels will start her term at the beginning of the fall semester. Daniels says she hopes ASG can be better engaged with students during her tenure.

“I would like to lobby more this year, like for textbooks or anything new,” said Daniels. She also said she plans to solicit more student feedback through surveys and suggestion boxes in the cafeteria and in the student center.

Though Hill will be finishing her term and stepping out of student government, she says she hopes to stop in and see how the student government is progressing,
and would like to offer any advice she can to Daniels.

While ASG president, Hill was particularly proud of going to lobby in Washington, D.C. She was among five students from the Los Rios Community College on the trip, including fellow ASG presidents from American River, Cosumnes River and Folsom Lake colleges; outgoing Los Rios student trustee Stefan Lee also participated in the lobbying efforts.

The issues they lobbied for included restricting textbook publishers from inflation of book prices and for providing more financial aid, and creating student debt relief. Each of the issues was researched thoroughly before going to Washington, said Hill.

“The past year for student government was a learning experience,” said Lee. “We were all pretty much new.”

He also said that for the next year, he would like to see more student involvement in the form of marches and rallies.

Said Hill: “I just want to see the ASG do more this year, to keep going and keep flourishing.”

Hill was born and raised in Fair Oaks. She will attend City College for another year, finishing her major in social science. She will then transfer, hopefully to Mills College, where she will change her major to sociology. Her goal is to get her master’s degree in education. Hill hopes to teach at a community college. She will not, however, be pursuing a career in politics. “I’ve learned I’m a pretty bad politician.”

Hill also shared her opinion about community college, in particular about the diverse student population and the positive experiences they are seeking.
“I think there is something special about community college,” she said. “There is a wide variety of people. They have a dream, they are here to do this.”