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Student government leader picks up statewide honor

Sacramento State honors student Nicole Anderson is a vocal force when it comes to student government. Her work as the secretary of state affairs for Associated Students, Inc., including her advocacy for affordable tuition before the California Legislature, has been recognized statewide. 
           
Those efforts helped earn her the CSU Student Advocate (CSSA) of the Year Award at the California State Student Association’s 50th anniversary celebration. The CSSA represents the 450,000 students in the CSU system and gives student representatives an opportunity to learn leadership and advocacy skills to shape public policy.
           
Anderson traveled to the Capitol more than a dozen times this school year on behalf of ASI, and legislative staff members know her by name. Receiving the award has been “very empowering,” she says. “I’ve been putting a lot of effort in going to the Capitol. It shows my activities were not going unnoticed.” 
           
Roberto Pomo, director of the University’s Honors Program, calls Anderson “a solid student leader. This young woman has been wonderfully committed since the first day she set foot on campus.”

Anderson says the award recognizes their lobbying efforts at the Capitol for a quality, affordable education and reflects “the high caliber of students who attend Sacramento State.”
             
Anderson is majoring in international relations. She has received a commission from the Marine Corps and plans to become a judge advocate general for the service.        

This is the second year in a row that a Sacramento State student has been honored as the CSU Student Advocate of the Year. Roberto Torres, the current ASI executive vice president and ASI president-elect, received the award in 2008.