Kin Ching Ip

chair

Kin Ching is a third year at the college studying Physics and Fundamentals (philosophy/literature interdisciplinary major). She was born and raised in Hong Kong and very much misses the warmer weather back home. As a Ming Dynasty fan, Kin Ching discovered the world of MUN and served as the backroom Assistant Chair of “Yongle’s Bongle: The Ming Dynasty” in ChoMUN XXVIII. Since then, she was the chair and a former mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Government in ChoMUN XXIX.

Outside of MUN, Kin Ching can be found dying in physics labs and drowning in problem sets, overthinking about how AI might destroy the world in UChicago’s Xlab, enjoying long-distance running, consuming weird and random media (Soviet propaganda spy movies, Avant-garde Japanese animes, Epic poems, early 2000s figure skating lore, Classical Russian literature), and enjoying a good game of Civ 6 (One more turn?).

Kin Ching is incredibly excited to be your Chair for ChoMUN XXX. If you have any questions, concerns, or would like running route recommendations, debate philosophy, or fangirl over Hindu mythology, you are always welcome to reach out to her at kcip@uchicago.edu.

Ravindra Mangar

crisis director

Ravi is a fourth year at the college very enthusiastically finishing his masters in Computer Science and bachelors thesis in the Biological Sciences. He is from Queens, New York and is incredibly passionate about his distaste for New Jerseyans (and even worse, Staten Islanders *shudders*). In ChoMUN XXIV, Ravi was a crisis director (at least until he was democratically and honorably crowned the mayor) of The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, 1980. Before that, Ravi was a suspiciously scheming CD to Yongle's Bongle: Court of the Ming Dynasty, 1403. When Ravi is not touching nature (the journal of course), you can find him suffering sitting at the back of ChoMUN meetings. You can also find him in the middle of an Icelandic geyser, on the edge of a highway in Bartlett, Illinois trying to explore an Indian temple, screaming his lungs out singing Mahler’s Symphony 2, foaming metro trains with his Canon EOS R50, or his most favorite: buying random things from a Hong Kong 7-Eleven. Ravi cannot wait for you to show up and distract him from his research work. Until then, he will be sitting in the objectively best building on campus, the Regenstein library, being an unwilling servant to his “psets.” 

Please help him by asking questions or sending an explanation of the Maxwell Equations at rmangar30@uchicago.edu. Please.

Zerlina Yau

crisis director

Zerlina is a third-year in the College studying Mathematics and Economics. She claims to hail from Queens, New York, but studies show that she is in great denial about having moved to Long Island late in life. Last year, in ChoMUN XXIX, she served as an Assistant Chair for Fast and Furiously Developing: The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, 1980. Outside of MUN, Zerlina is probably playing Honkai: Star Rail and pointedly ignoring the constantly-growing list of other games she bought but hasn’t yet finished (and this week’s problem set. She’s ignoring that too). Her other interests include reading niche webnovels (any Omniscient Reader fans out there?) and eating increasingly spicy foods in hopes of rebuilding her spice tolerance (which fell off hard in recent years).

Zerlina is thrilled to be your Crisis Director for this committee. If you have any questions or would like to add a game to her backlog, please reach out at zerlinay@uchicago.edu.