Sofiya Shagirova

Hi! My name is Sofiya, I am from Almaty and am a first year Arts and Science student here at UCL.

My experience on the committee this year as the social media manager made me keen on helping our society further, and is the exact reason why I decided to apply for the role of the president. The ability to make the society even more warming and welcoming is what drives my motivation to be the president.

I had a variety of different leadership roles in the last 4 years at school; My experience on both ends of the spectrum: not only being a team leader, but a team member as well, have shown me the most important qualities of a team. I have been fortunate enough to work on projects not only within the school bubble, but also outside of it, such as TeachingForHeroes, OhMyEcon and smaller contributions to other volunteering programmes within Kazakhstan.