Thao Le, 18, is currently the chair of the administration committee in the DASB Senate. She is a liberal arts major with a focus in social and behavioral sciences.

Le’s leadership experience began her senior year of high school when she joined the student government. She said before that, she was shy and participated little in student affairs.

She said she hopes to improve the senate’s management of finances to represent the entire student body in a more efficient and equal way.

Le said that by creating bigger events about important social subjects, the senate can create a more comfortable and smoother experience for De Anza students.

“We have all these resources that we fund and are on campus but we don’t do much besides give money to them. It’s kind of sad,” Le said.

Le wants to change the way the senate funds programs so that the resources students struggle to obtain, such as high-speed Wi-Fi at school, expensive software and textbooks will be more readily

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Marco Monroy, a 19-year-old economics major, does not currently hold a position in the DASB Senate. He said he hopes to better De Anza’s environment by making the school a more comfortable place for the students.

Monroy said that as an international student from Mexico, he offers a different perspective to observe and represent diversity at De Anza.

“There’s over 2,000 students here that hold an international student VISA, just like myself, and I think that’s amazing for De Anza,” Monroy said.

Monroy said he wants De Anza to be memorable for all and hopes to change the way the Senate funds extra-curricular pro-grams such as the arts, dance, music and theater.

He said De Anza has changed his perspective of community college and he hopes to make De Anza a place where students will enjoy being, instead of a place to get their credits done quickly.