2026 SLC Election Candidate Profile – Jaxon Lee

 I have a real desire to help and to make a difference and I’m very involved on campus as it is. I’ve made quite a few friends and talking with the student body I realized that my place here is in student leadership because I know that I can make a difference here and that being on that team, working with that team in a collaborative effort, we can make a big difference here on campus. 

That’s just something that I’ve always strived for is always trying to be the voice of those who can’t have their own. That’s what I’m all about. That’s what I choose to represent in the SLC is those students’ rights, services, protections that are guaranteed to you in your constitution. We have an obligation to uphold those, and it’s not something I take lightly.

I am the current president of the LBCC Command Zone, which is the Magic the Gathering Club that’s on campus. I am also in Garden Club. I am in Art Club. I am in AV Club. I am in Cheese Club. I’m in Video Game Club. The list kind of goes on. Honestly, there’s so many I can’t remember them all.

But being active in the community is very important to me. It is just a main goal of mine regardless of being in the SLC, just being a student and being a part of this community is a privilege. And to me, being able to work closely with these students and working on a level where I, as a member of the SLC, where I can meet with them and connect with them on an individual level to understand really what their concerns are.

I will admit that coming back to college has been a very blissful experience for me.

It’s also been a very jarring experience for me because it’s given me the resources and tools necessary and kind of forced me in the direction that I wanted and needed to be. And in doing that, I’ve been able to establish a better schedule and time management skills that have made it easier. And working with my peers; my peers have made it very easy too because a lot of the people in this institution, this community are very, very friendly. 

We have a very loving community here and it’s very easy. It’s so nice to know that if there’s something wrong that I can go to my peers and say, listen, this is what’s going on. What should I do? That is important to me.

I got to a place in life where I got tired of playing video games. This past year I’ve kind of been on a journey of self-reflection and really working on myself. I’ve discovered a lot of good and bad about those things as one does on those journeys and having to work through some of those issues has been definitely a challenge. 

Coming to LB again has really brought a lot of that full circle. It’s really being here and in this environment and working with the student body and working with the SLC has really shown me that the work that I’ve put into myself has paid off.

I had knee surgery in August. I had to repair my ACL and my meniscus and I couldn’t walk for almost two months. I had to basically sit stagnant in my house, in that tiny little apartment for a couple months. Got a lot of video game time in, but it was not fun. In those times, sitting around, being upset that I can’t do anything or being upset that I’m immobile, it really made me think about how much time I have here in life.

I could sit around and spend my whole life being unhappy about the choices I’ve already made or I can go and I can do better and I can be better and instead of just sitting around and dreaming, live that dream and that’s what I’m here to do.

I’ve heard from my friends that I tend to have a centralist ideal where I am more or less on the middle on things. I like to be the objective person in the room, “Hey let’s wait a minute, let’s really think about both sides of the argument and how this can benefit both parties and we can meet in the middle on things.”

Regardless of what the dilemma is or what the discourse is, building that community is the important part.

I think that at the moment we, the student body, needs more of a voice. Realistically, in my opinion, the student body is the heart and soul of every institution like this one. Without the student body, we don’t make up any of our other resources including the SLC, including all of those clubs, all of these other programs that we have. 

And it is my opinion that meeting with the student body on an individual level and looking to connect with them to truly understand where they stand and where we can connect to further this institution along to the greatness that it already is. As an institution, I think we are doing great, but I know we can do better.

Everywhere you go, you can do better, always. We, the students, are the backbone of this institution. And without their voice and without their support, this institution is nothing. No institution is anything without that.

Just at the end of the day, I’m looking to bring more connection and bring more engagement to the students and to the student body. 

We’re all here for a reason. We all have a direction on where we need to go. But we all have a common goal to better this place. I mean, leave the place better than you found it.

My main goal is to run back through all of our documents. The Student Leadership Council bylaws that specifically govern us, that help us govern you. The ASLBCC constitution, which is a student body constitution that basically lays out all of the protections, rights, and services guaranteed to you by the institution and by the SLC. 

It is my main goal to bridge the gap between the students and the SLC and the institution to try to come together with an understanding of what the goal is and where we’re headed as a whole. The goal is to go back through and establish that our standards are benefiting everyone and not just us, because it’s not about the Student Leadership Council, it’s about the student body.

And this is all public information. If anybody would like to go and look at any of those rules, it’s all on the website. You have access to it. Feel free to run through it. I actually implore you to if you are a student, just so that you can better understand your protections and rights.

I’m very good at holding people accountable. That’s something that I really will push for is accountability and transparency, not only with my leadership team, but with everyone. 

I’m a big advocate for inclusivity. That’s what I’m all about, especially as president, is making sure that the students understand that they’re not just another student walking these halls, that they are an individual that has a voice and has a purpose and that their vision and their voices and goals are just as important as anyone else’s. And I plan to lead with that.

My slogan is even “Your Voice, My Mission,” just because I’m so focused on making sure that the students are heard. 

I simply am just here to provide that support for those who need it because truly I understand what it feels like to try and lead the charge on a cause and to have no advocation. I understand what it’s like to be in a position of not having support behind you, and I never want anyone else to feel that way.

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Editor’s note: Edited and condensed for clarity and to give equal coverage to each candidate.