Adolfo Alvarez has been elected as UNC’s 2025-26 student body president, after the UNC Board of Elections released certified results Friday evening.
After receiving the results, Alvarez said that he was extremely grateful to the student body for trusting his mission to bring positive change into the executive branch.
“I'm really happy that people saw that what it takes to be student body president is, yes, to have strong leadership skills, but also to really care about the people who are in this University,” he said.
Studying media and journalism and global studies, Alvarez currently serves as vice president of UNC’s Carolina International Relations Association.
Alvarez labeled himself an outside voice, announcing his campaign on Instagram on Jan. 21. He defined his run with the idea that change comes from action, rather than experience.
“For too long, our student government has been stuck in a cycle of making campaign promises it doesn’t keep,” a Feb. 4 post on the Alvarez campaign Instagram account stated. Alvarez shared similar sentiments in candidate debates before voting began.
His policy goals include 24 hour library access for students, a reworked on-campus housing process and working with graduate students on stipend increases. He received endorsements from The Daily Tar Heel Editorial Board, The Graduate Workers of the UNC Workers Union, the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies and Sunrise UNC.
Describing himself as hopeful and excited, Alvarez said that he would give people the results he promised to bring, thanking the student body.
“I came into this country by myself when I was 16-years-old, and I didn't know if I was gonna end up going to college,” he said. “So today, I just really feel grateful to that 16-year-old, because, I don't know, he would never believe that I am student body president elect of the nation's oldest public University.”
