AD-HOC COMMITTEE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL
ChoMUN XXX’s Ad Hoc Committee of the Secretary-General has been specially designed to give experienced crisis delegates a unique and exciting experience. The committee topic will remain a secret until shortly before the conference, at which point the background guide will be released and delegates will have the opportunity to engage in committee-specific preparation. Due to the nature of the committee, delegates will be forced to think on their feet, and their crisis skills will be constantly tested. As the flagship committee of ChoMUN XXX, the Secretary-General’s Ad Hoc promises the most innovative crisis experience on the collegiate competitive circuit and one that will challenge your preconceptions of traditional crisis Model UN.
When preparing for this committee, the executives encourage delegates to focus on tangible skills, including but not limited to: note and directive writing, speeches, directive mergers, and on-your-feet thinking. While several hints for this committee will be released over the days leading to the start of ChoMUN XXX, the executives would caution against relying too heavily upon them; they are not meant to be easily interpreted, as that would ruin the secret!
This is an advanced committee.
We highly recommend that delegates have experience competing on crisis-style committees on the collegiate circuit before joining this committee.
Ryan brennan
chair
Ryan is a fourth year at the college majoring in Political Science, while minoring in Inequality, Social Problems, and Change. He reigns from the great state of Pennsylvania, repping Philadelphia wherever he goes.
As an avid member of team, Ryan is a competing member of the UChicago travel team, chaired a crisis committee at ChoMUN XXVIII and the UNSC at ChoMUN XXIX, and moderated multiple committees for our high school conference. However, he’s not just a one trick pony — Ryan is also involved in college improv comedy, works at an on-campus woodworking shop, and constantly pursues unique side quests exploring Chicago. In his free time, Ryan enjoys biking around, producing music, and aimlessly reading Wikipedia articles. Feel free to read out to him at drbrennan@uchicago.edu with any questions or general inquiries about life!
rhea kanuparthi
crisis director
Rhea is a fourth-year majoring in Political Science and Mathematics. She’s from Allen, Texas — which is really just Dallas if you ignore the urbanity. She is a long-suffering fan of every Dallas team and anything that drives really fast.
Within Model UN, Rhea is the President of the UChicago travel team and has CDed the UNSC about 4 times now! Outside of Model UN, Rhea works at the Existential Risk Laboratory at UChicago, studying how nuclear weapons can potentially end the world. She also loves to cook incredibly spicy Indian food, watch hours of Sunday Football, and indulge in dramatic but nostalgic Indian movies. Feel free to ask her about the greatest moment in cricket history or the cheapest coffee place in Chicago at rheakanuparthi@uchicago.edu!
aaron wang
crisis director
Aaron is a fourth year at the college majoring in Molecular Engineering. He is from New York City and feels most at home when surrounded by incoherent yelling, belligerent honking, and other white noise.
Aaron got into MUN Assistant Chairing for ChoMUN XXVII and he couldn’t get enough! He’s just joined Team as well so look out for him on the circuit! But off the circuit, Aaron loves to dip his toes in anything creatively, intellectually, or physically challenging he can. He writes music on guitar, piano, and computer, he scours used-bookstores for great catches (on a big philosophy kick as of late), he performs improv comedy, he gyms and runs, and he researches at a mechanobiology lab at NYU in the summers. Right now Aaron’s most focused on exploring his major, learning Chinese, and learning to cook. Please reach out to him with any serious questions, or comments, or anything lighthearted like a favorite movie at aywang27@uchicago.edu!
Secretariat oversight:
LULU DELUCA, SEcretary-general