Meet the 2026-2027 Executive Board:
President: Aidan Power
Aidan Power is an MA student in Public History studying how photographs from historical protests on Parliament Hill can be displayed where they were taken using locative media technologies like augmented reality. They have a keen interest in photography, the social impacts of artificial intelligence, the history of social movements and protests, and labour history. They previously served as a departmental steward during the 2025-26 academic year and attended many Unit 1 bargaining sessions as an observer.
Co-VPs Internal: Srobona Basak and Ariel Rabkin-Meyer
Srobona Basak is a teaching assistant in the Department of Physics and is pursuing her PhD in theoretical particle physics. Previously, she’s also served as a steward for her department. Ariel Rabkin-Meyer has served as a teaching assistant and steward for various departments, including Film Studies, English, and Classical Civilizations. She is pursuing her PhD in Cultural Mediations, housed in the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture. Her research is related to settler colonialism, science fiction, and television studies. Srobona and Ariel’s broader goals in this position include working with the Constitution Committee to improve and update the local’s bylaws to streamline the day-to-day running of the union as well as incorporating non-unionized workers on campus.
Co-VP Externals: Taras Pylypenko and co-vp
Treasurer: Dani Reimer
Dani Reimer is pursuing their PhD in History, focusing on the newspaper narratives that formed around early Cold War spy scandals, and often work as a teaching assistant for courses on 20th-century Canada. As your Secretary-Treasurer, they are particularly interested in creating effective and efficient financial processes and communicating the union’s finances clearly and transparently to the membership.
Recording Secretary: Louis Zhang
Louis is a Master’s student in Computer Science. Having a background in the Libre Software community, he sees that it shares with unions the same values: freedom and dignity for all, via collective action. He looks forward to creating systems and automation to make CUPE 4600’s functioning smoother and the board’s life easier. He trains with the Ravens Nordic Skiing team.
VP, Unit 1: Molly Alderman
Molly Alderman is a graduate student studying and working in the department of chemistry. Her research is centred around the chemistry of vapour deposition processes and she has been a TA in general and physical chemistry labs and a tutorial TA for physical and inorganic chemistry courses. As vice president unit 1 she is focused on educating the membership about their benefits and rights under the collective agreement and collaborating with the chief stewards unit 1 on defending members’ rights.
Co-Chief Stewards Unit 1: Kaela Speigel-Biro & Serena Karevich
VP, Unit 2: Lindy
Chief Steward Unit 2: Mark Blenkinsop
Mark Blenkinsop is a Contract Instructor for the School of Mathematics and Statistics, where has taught for more than 15 years. His primary teaching focus has been classic courses of calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, precursors to his graduate research focus on wave equations and chaos theory. Over the past decade he has pivoted from a research focus to writing, wherein he has accumulated multiple publications of academic references in his field. Mark currently sits as Senior Fellow with Prometheus Press – an Ottawa based publishing company which is not profit driven. As well, as former captain of the Carleton’s varsity swim team, he now serves as one the team’s co-Coaches.