Aidan li

Chair

Aidan is a second-year at the college majoring in Political Science and Astrophysics. He was born and raised in northern Virginia – although sometimes he (incorrectly) claims he’s from DC.

Within MUN, Aidan served as an Assistant Chair for UNSC at ChoMUN XXVII and as an Assistant Chair for SPECPOL at MUNUC, UChicago’s high school conference. This year, he will also be chairing CSW at MUNUC.

Outside of MUN, Aidan does research at an international security institute and a public policy research group on campus. In his free time, you can find him exploring Chicago’s food options or reading in the library.

Aidan is very excited to be your chair this year and is excited to see how delegates will adapt and tackle the challenges that this weekend will bring.

If you want to reach out to him about anything, committee or otherwise, his email is aidanli@uchicago.edu.

Anna Hatchikian

Crisis Director

When arriving in the US, Anna discovered the beauty of parking lots instead of parks, and strip malls instead of walkable city centers. Back home in Bulgaria, she could only dream about these things.

Now that she’s here, she is double-majoring in Psychology and [TBD] and spending lots of her free time doing psychology research, dabbling in International Student Organization’s affairs, writing, and exploring the wonderful land- and food-scape of Chicago with friends.

Last year, she was an AC for ChoMUN’s JCC “Vroom or Doom!: Ford vs Ferrari, 1962” and an AC for MUNUC’s SPECPOL committee. Now, she will be your Crisis Director and is very excited to see where this committee will go. Perhaps there will be a well-developed state of South Korea... or perhaps everything will go down in flames? Anna awaits to see what you’ll cook up!

Until then, feel free to reach out to Anna about any committee or maybe less committee-related questions at ahatchikian@uchicago.edu.

Arielle Bitel

CRISIS DIRECTOR

This was written by walking up to Ariel’s friends and asking: “What’s quirky about her?” Unfortunately, Ariel confirmed that everything they said was completely untrue. “She speaks chinese.” In reality, Arielle was born in London and learned Russian – not Mandarin – before moving to Chicago where she grew up. “She’s always organizing soccer games, but never plays”. Another falsity. Arielle often puts her homework aside to sprint towards the nearest field. “You have three days to join the circus club”. This actually might be true — we really have no idea what this could mean.

As a second-year, she majors in biochemistry and conducts research. Arielle staffed CHOMUN XXVII as an Assistant Chair for Haiya! It’s the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis! and competes on the circuit. She enjoys baking, hiking, and improv, and tells truly terrible chemistry jokes

Feel free to reach out and ask her about Mandarin or trapeze! You can find her at ariellebitel@uchicago.edu.