COLLEGE DEMOCRATS OF ILLINOIS
2026 - 2027 Executive Board
Joseph Dowling
Maya Weiss
Vice President
Contact:
weissmaya1005@gmail.com
School:
Illinois State University
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred… But is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another.”
- Senator
Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
President
Contact:
dowling.patrickj@gmail.com
(815) 274-0525
School:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
- President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nash Phillips
Jordon Gully
Downstate Director
Contact:
jgull@illinois.edu
School:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“When you know what you stand for, you know what to fight for!”
- Vice President
Kamala Harris
Chicagoland Director
Contact:
nashphillips2029@u.northwestern.edu
School:
Northwestern University
“The world is changing, but it is not changing on its own.”
- Secretary of Transportation
Pete Buttigieg
Rylee Graves
Beckett Kriner
Finance Director
Contact:
School:
Wheaton University
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Communications Director
Contact:
rylee_graves@yahoo.com
School:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.”
- Unknown
Benjamin Dreves-Hunt
Kylan Elliot
Legislative Director
Contact:
kelliot1@luc.edu
School:
Loyola University
“Hope is the active conviction that despair will never have the last word.”
- Senator
Cory Booker
Political Director
Contact:
adreveshunt66@gmail.com
School:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
- President
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Adam Musaev
Vacant
D.E.I. Director
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Membership Director
Contact:
adamam0413@gmail.com
School:
University of Illinois Chicago
“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
- James Baldwin
James Beatley
Outreach Director
Contact:
jcbeatley@gmail.com
(708) 573-9173
School:
University of Illinois Chicago
“We must recognize the full human equality of all of our people—before God, before the law, and in the councils of government. We must do this, not because it is economically advantageous—although it is; not because the laws of God command it—although they do; not because people in other lands wish it so. We must do it for the fundamental reason that it is the right thing to do.”
- Senator
Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
Uma Ramesh
Communications Deputy
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Angelina Ruggiero
Communications Deputy
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Membership Deputy
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