Isabelle DeSisto
Hi everyone! My name is Isabelle DeSisto, and I’m a 5th-year PhD student in Politics from Boston, MA. Outside research, I like running, swimming, minor league baseball, and hosting overly elaborate theme parties.
This is my 4th year living in Lakeside, so I know first-hand the ups and downs of life here. Lakeside is my community: I attend nearly every town hall (missed only two last year!), submit anonymous comments regularly (if you know you know), join the book club, and take part in social events. I want to give back by serving as Vice Chair.
Why me?
- Leadership experience: In college, I managed sustainability programs for a dorm of ~500 students. At Princeton, I’ve organized workshops, conferences, and community events.
- Commitment to Lakeside: I already show up, listen, and participate. Now I want to help resolve some of the problems that I have experienced myself!
- Familiarity with resident concerns: I’ve lived through the same issues many of you raise. I even ran a quantitative analysis of the past 3 months of messages on Lakeside Slack to identify the most common issues in our community. I will share this in the next meeting.
What I’d do as Vice Chair
The Vice Chair helps keep the committee running smoothly—maintaining the Constitution, tracking attendance, and supporting the Chair. But beyond the formal role, I want to push for these practical improvements, based on my own experience and your Slack comments:
- Accountability on HVAC & Power
- Work with current committee members to keep pressure on ACC and Princeton.
- Create a simple form where residents can log outages in real time so we can collect reliable data and demand transparency on response times.
- Community Tools & Borrowing
- Propose a “Lakeside Lending Library” with shared items (carts, bike pumps, jumper cables, ladders, dehumidifiers).
- Fewer desperate Slack pleas for missing carts = happier residents.
- Packages & Mailroom
- Push for clearer signage, better cross-building sweeps for misdelivered packages, and more transparency about lost/missing mail.
- Maintenance Portal
- Advocate for improvements to the portal: residents should know the status of requests and how long the average fix takes.
- A little transparency can save a lot of frustration.
I’m proud to live at Lakeside and at Princeton. This is my home, and I want it to work better for all of us. I’m not afraid to advocate strongly when residents aren’t treated properly—but I’ll do so constructively and collaboratively.
If you elect me as Vice Chair, you’ll get someone who’s organized, data-minded, committed to transparency, and above all, deeply invested in making Lakeside a great place to live. Thanks for your consideration!
