The Carleton United Nations executive team is working hard this year to make the 2011-2012 season one of our best yet. Read along to meet our starting lineup!
Janis Amal, the Prime Minister in Exile (President)
Janis has been an active member of the Carleton United Nations Society for 4 years. Her career in Model UN started at the age of 15 when she founded her high school Model UN team and lead them to the Peel District Model United Nations Competition. Since then, her Model UN career has taken her to Kingston, Montreal, and Boston, where she won the Outstanding Delegate Award at the Harvard National Model United Nations Competition. Janis is looking forward to the upcoming year with the Carleton United Nations Society, and the new and exciting opportunities the society will be offering it’s delegates. In her past time Janis enjoys reading legal philosophy, hot yoga, and singing loudy while driving around with her Vice-President Sunny Shrestha.
Sunny Shreshta, the Twitter Titan (VP Communications)
This bio is off in some far-off place with no working cell phone.
Gys Weverink, the financier (Director of Finance)
George Stairs, the travel agent (Director of Logistics)
It seemed as though all the heavens cried with George’s mother in agony as she brought her first son into the world. The sea ravished the coastline, the wind bent the backs of trees, and thick, weeping clouds smothered the sky. It was the fourth year, now, of the great Nova Scotian potato famine, and when George howled his first breaths, his cry was as one lamenting the sorrows of a entire people. The boy grew up fast and strong; his was an age that did not allow for superfluities like childhood, and George had scarce shed the didie before the mussel farm made a man of him. He had a shock of hair, red like a sailor’s warning, arms like tree-trunks, and steely grey eyes. The boy became strong of back, but agile of mind and feet, and as boy became youth, George proved his mettle in many a tavern brawl, rugby scrimmage, and back alley card game gone wrong. It was near his fifteenth name-day that George lost his dear cousin Reginald in a tragic mussel stampede. Guilt-ridden and restless, he took the King’s Shilling and set sail for the farthest corners of the Empire in search of redemption and glory. George proved an honourable, able, and loyal hand on the HMCS Haligonia he did bravely battle many an unscrupulous slaver and many a craven Frenchman. George was not without his brazen side, however, and one fateful night on shore leave he found himself facing the stony visage of maritime justice after drinking too much grog and stealing the Governor of Singapore’s hat. Cleverly disguised as a French wallpaper merchant, George returned the hat and fled on a Spanish silver ship into the Oriental night. After Settling in Capetown for a time, George was set on the run once more after pouring wine on a hot-tempered and well-connected Dutch trader. George used the profits from a purloined ale shipment to pay for a ticket to back to Canada, though he felt morally conflicted about this the next day. Living above an Ottawa brothel for a time, George was once more left guilt-ridden and without a home after utterly destroying its porch in the course of an intense rapier duel with yet another irate Dutchman. Fortunately for George he soon after befriended a local fur trading magnate who taught him to act and dress as a gentleman, though he still retained the curious habit of pairing sandles with his pin-striped trousers and fine waistcoasts. Armed with an education in the liberal arts, a newfound respectability and a ready supply of liquor and bribe money (financed by a prospering career in gin and beer robbery), George then embarked on a political career. After playing the role of the perfect gentleman and delivering its heavily-intoxicated President safely to her hotel suite, George won himself a coveted seat on the Carleton United Nations Society board of directors. Having consigned his bootlegging days to the annals of history, George “Archangel Gabriel” Stairs, provides a moral center to balance against the libertine Dutchmen (it seems his fate is to be ever surrounded by them), and supply-side economists sitting with him on the Board.
Chris Tomalty, the personal trainer (Director of Training)
Chris is a second-year student pursuing a Bachelors of Public Affairs and Policy Management, specializing in International Studies and minoring in Economics. As a high-school student at an American school overseas, Chris learned the procedural ropes and has travelled from Boston to Beijing learning the secrets of Model UN protocol. He loves both the substance of policy debate and the nuts-and-bolts of using (and abusing) UN procedure. His favourite procedural success was making the Chair take 30 minutes to clarify a motion before the committee using Points of Parliamentary Inquiry instead of his personal speaking time. Though usually on the ball, a sure-fire way to distract Chris is to goad him in to ranting about credit and malinvestment.
Dashiell Dronyk, the diplomatic contact (Director of Programming)
Dashiell was born to in Victoria, British Columbia and grew up in northern Alberta. He has worked in fields ranging from oil and gas to upscale menswear. After spending two years at Grande Prairie Regional College (GPRC), Dashiell moved to Ottawa to complete a Bachelor of Arts in political science with a minor in history at Carleton. In addition to the UN Society, he also volunteers on Parliament Hill. He is enamoured with Ottawa’s quiet, bureaucratic dignity and its abundance of pubs. Dashiell’s academic interests include defence and security policy, geopolitics, and nineteenth century world history. In the real world he likes nice clothes, Canadian whiskey, and the bass guitar.
Dashiell participated in his first MUN at Mount Royal University as part of GPRC’s delegation, drawn by a love of international politics and after-hours revelry. He joined Carleton’s UN Society almost immediately after arriving in Ottawa.
Mark Calderaro, Member of the Party Planning Committee (Director of Special Projects)
As this one of this year’s Directors of Special Projects, I’ll be working with Emily to make sure you’re not having fun only in committee, but socializing with the UN Society. I’m a second year BPAPM student who has been involved with the Carleton UNS since I first came to Carleton. I quickly established myself in the society at my first MUN conference, where I earned the distinction of best delegate in my committee. It’s my passion for policy and politics as well as my pragmatic approach to resolving issues that first drew me to the UN Society. While I’m always friendly and approachable, don’t be fooled- I also earned the distinction of sassiest delegate at my first conference for my fierce debating style and attitude. I’m hard working and opinionated with a sassy, sometimes-ghetto-side, and I’m excited to be planning events for everyone.
