Miller, He Promise to Make ‘Harvard for ALL’

Sophia F. He ’27 and Malachi C. Miller ’27 promised to improve residential life and incentivize club transparency in order to make “Harvard for ALL” in their campaign pitch for the Harvard Undergraduate Association presidency.

Miller said their platform, centered around a commitment to “amplify,” “listen,” and “lead,” would help “connect students and their ideas to funding and administrative power.” Miller and He’s platform included semesterly town meetings, an online feedback form, and office hours.

Their platform also outlined plans to expand funding for student-faculty meals, increase outreach to incoming first-years with guidance about dorm layouts and club application processes, and host more interhouse events.

Miller and He also said they aim to financially incentivize clubs to provide more information about how they evaluate applicants during the comp process. They said they would consider how open clubs are about their comp processes when making HUA funding decisions.

“I’m the first person I know to go to Harvard. I didn’t know anything about comps. I didn’t know anything about anything,” Miller said.

The new policy would make “Harvard more accessible to every member of the community,” Miller added.

According to Miller, what distinguishes their platform is “a practicality that’s rooted in our involvement in other communities on campus, and the understanding that there’s organizations and places that the HUA can serve the whole student body by supporting it.”

Miller is currently Adams House Social and Intramural Chair as well as Phillips Brooks House Association Public Service Representative, while He serves as the HUA Residential Life Officer and Leverett House Stein Chair.

“We’re one of the few — if not the only — that has one with HUA experience and one with non-HUA experience,” He said. “We define a bridge across these two groups.”

Their platform highlighted the pair’s efforts in their current roles to improve residential life, including by lowering laundry and transportation costs, providing free summer storage, and advocating for hot breakfasts as well as pest control.

“As a residential life officer for this past year, these are all things that I've talked to administrators face to face about and have actively advocated for,” He said.

“We are already doing the work,” He said. “We will continue to work in our communities — in our house committees, in our everyday communities — no matter what.”

“We’re just really excited to hopefully expand that onto a broader scale that is for all,” He added.

—Staff writer Wyeth Renwick can be reached at wyeth.renwick@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @wzrenwick.

—Staff writer Nirja J. Trivedi can be reached at nirja.trivedi@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @nirjatriv.