 My name is Rishi Ahuja. I'm going to be a senior here at UC Berkeley and my role in the ASUC is student advocate. Sexual violence and harassment is a really important issue to me because of the immense impact I've seen it have on friends and you know everyone on the college campus that I've interacted with. Through my position I'm talking to a lot of survivors and hearing about their experience and it really hit home to me that's something that we can do better and it's something that we need to really focus on. For students it's very difficult to bring forward a claim of sexual violence because it's immensely hard, it's a traumatic experience and finding folks that you can trust to really report has been a consistent difficulty. We're hoping that the creation of the student survivor advocate position will really change that and will enable students to have someone that they can trust and go to when reporting an issue of sexual violence on this campus. Through working with different campus partners and campus staff I know that each and every one of them cares about making better outcomes for students and working hard to do so but when they're faced with you know immense caseloads and a small number of staff there's only so much an individual can do and I think that you know given those kind of constraints it's up to us and up to everyone on the campus to say you know that's not acceptable amount of resources developed to this issue or devoted to this issue. I see my role and I see our student government's role as being that channel to give direct feedback on what's working and not working for students and to also kind of really push for the changes once they've been identified. We as a student community need to make sure that we're talking to each other helping students report that they so need to telling our friends what's acceptable and what's not because at the end of the day it is all our responsibility to create the culture and the campus that we want and it's immensely important that we all make sure that we're talking about this issue on a consistent basis.