Sulayman Khan was elected Student Body President of the University of Maryland, College Park Student Government Association in October 2026. He represents the university’s more than 32,000 undergraduates and leads the SGA executive cabinet. As president, he is an ex-officio member of the University Senate and the Board of Trustees, and serves as the SGA’s representative to the University System of Maryland Student Council, the Association of Big Ten Students, and the Vice President of Student Affairs Student Advisory Council.

Khan is a Clark Leader, an award-winning opinion writer for Al-Hikmah, an undergraduate teaching fellow for BIOE 121 and a student facilitator for SPHL 276: Decolonizing Medicine: Steps to Actionable Change. He is also head coach of the Eleanor Roosevelt High School Muslim Interscholastic Tournament team, ranked second nationally, and president of SCALE, which hosts science projects in elementary schools.

A recipient of the USM Board of Regents Student Excellence Scholarship in Research and Academics, Khan has co authored publications in Biotechnology and Bioengineering as well as Advanced Science, and has contributed to a patent on a hyper vesiculating strain of the bacterium Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. He graduates in May 2027 with a B.S. in Bioengineering and plans to attend medical school.