Kelley Student Government: Ajith Amba and Eknoor Sethi

Ajith Amba

As the new Kelley Student Government (KSG) president and vice president, Ajith Amba and Eknoor Sethi want to ensure that all student voices are heard and all student organizations have the support to be successful, regardless of how new they are or how many students they represent. 

“We have 90 student organizations at Kelley that KSG doesn’t necessarily oversee, but we’re the governing body. We want to be a one-stop-shop for whatever club leaders need—be it marketing resources or reserving space on campus—because the out-of-classroom experience is really what makes a student grow,” Ajith said. “Certainly, we learn academics, but the student organizations make the Kelley School of Business. If there’s no support for these groups, we’re not doing our job as KSG.” 

Eknoor Sethi

One of the ways this KSG administration has worked to hear what underrepresented Kelley students need is through Eknoor’s role as the first KSG vice president of DEIJB last year. She says her greatest accomplishment in that role—and at Kelley—has been collaborating with the Out at Kelley, an identity-based organization for people to find a community, to create a professional attire guidebook for their community. 

“This was one of my favorite moments at Kelley because I got to see the impact it was making and the people it was affecting,” Eknoor said. “I got to work a lot on my allyship in that position. I don’t experience what they face, but I can try to put myself in their shoes and give them a voice if they don’t have one.” 

During their 2023-2024 administration, Ajith and Eknoor plan to advocate for more diverse admissions at Kelley to attract the variety of perspectives to the classroom that better prepares students for the workforce. Since they took office this past spring, their administration has advocated for and collaborated with the Dean’s Office to offer professional dress wear later this school year to students who need it. They’ve also secured funding for clubs that support women and unrepresented minorities and will fund and award two $500 gifts for Kelley organizations for exemplary work in the DEIB field.  

“We want to make sure people doing this work are thanked for it because it’s a taxing position to take,” Ajith said. “We want to recognize those who put their personal time and happiness on the line for so many people.” 

Both Ajith and Eknoor began their freshman years at Kelley during the 2020 COVID shutdown and experienced the classroom from their computer screens. They participated in student government all four years of high school and college. Both are from New Jersey (Eknoor moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in middle school.), and both are first-generation Indian Americans. Eknoor is majoring in management and law, ethics, and decision-making at Kelley. She plans to attend law school to study intellectual law. Ajith is a finance, accounting, and business analytics major. He looks forward to giving back to the Kelley community when he graduates, and both he and Eknoor hope to leave behind even more than they take with them once they graduate from Kelley.  

“There are so many things to be proud of from our time at Kelley,” Eknoor said. “Being so involved and making meaningful relationships in KSG—I know that I’ve left an impact, but when I graduate in the spring, I leave with a very good support system that will not go away when I leave. I’ll stay connected with these people throughout my life.”