Remington Aginskaya-Zhi (they/them) is a Pure Math and Mathematical Physics student that has moved from Xinjiang to Beijing, to Houston, to Calgary, and finally found a home in Waterloo for the past 4 years of university.

Having held multiple Council, Board, and Executive positions in clubs, MathSoc, and WUSA, as well as working part-time and on co-op for WUSA Advocacy and UWaterloo, Remington knows this university inside and out. They understand the all the ways bureaucracy can be painful to students, and they understand how to navigate it. As WUSA Vice President in 2025-26, Remington advocated for funding for student housing as part of Build Canada Homes, reforms for provincial post-secondary education funding and university governance, and spearheaded policy development in response to government interference in student associations. They have also taken college courses on modern non-profit board governance, and currently serves on the Board of Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated, and bring valuable governance knowledge to the student advocacy field.

As Vice President, Remington has felt the gaps between WUSA’s external advocacy and the fractured work that is done by groups across campus like the Societies, student councils at the colleges, Residence Life Council, etc. As Director, they hope to focus inward and continue the work governance reform has done to establish stronger ties with internal advocacy bodies.

From pandemic-era pickets to protect their neighbours from eviction, to being an officer of the largest student housing co-operative in North America and travelling to Ottawa to meet with MPs and advocating for affordable student housing as a part of Build Canada Homes, Remington has seen a wide spectrum of struggles with housing, and creative policy solutions. While students are excluded from rent freezes due to frequent moving, Remington hopes to see WUSA centrally track rent increases to to empower students to spot unreasonable hikes, make informed housing decisions, and strengthen collective advocacy. Thy also support providing access to tenant insurance through student-run models, ensure students can protect their living space and belongings without being forced into expensive, for-profit insurance products.

As a member of the Wikipedia Guild of Copyeditors, Rem has spent countless hours rewording explanations for dense technical concepts for a general audience, and brought the same eye of scrutiny to Team Horizon’s platform statements.