Jude Poirier ‘28 is from Tucson, Arizona. In his home state, he was a strong advocate for equitable education, working with his county’s education commission to advocate for queer rights and mental health resources in the classroom alongside co-founding a nonprofit that provided free STEM education programming to over 1,500 elementary schoolers in Southern Arizona. At Dartmouth, Jude will be majoring in Quantitative Social Science with minors in Education and Public Policy. He plans on leveraging his data science skills to analyze effective education policy nationwide. Outside of the DPU, Jude is an active member of the Dartmouth Democrats and Dartmouth Model United Nations, the Collis Governing Board’s SPEC representative, a Great Issues Scholar and Jack Byrne Scholar of Mathematics, and writes crosswords for The Dartmouth. He is also extensively involved in New Hampshire politics in the 2024 election cycle, working with local democratic candidates and the Harris-Walz campaign.