Global+Awareness

=Model United Nations San Antonio= = = MUNSA is the pride and joy of ISA. It is the golden child that everyone works together to love and nurture. This makes sense not only because ISA founded MUNSA, but also it is the largest student run Model United Nations conference west of the Mississippi. My freshman year, I interviewed delegates in order to compile a news article that was submitted to be in the MUNSA newspaper. I was inexperienced and wasn’t very sure as to what was going on in the room. My sophomore year I was a delegate. I represented the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the room discussing Disarmament. When we are researching, we understand the multiple perspectives of global dynamics and how they work within and across nations and regions. There is nothing that has ever provided me with the knowledge and skills to understand global issues, concerns, and events on an in-depth level. If you walk in each room and listen to their debates, you will learn more than you could in any history class. I was a major contributor to the first working paper that ended up becoming the resolution to our topic regarding land mines. The thing that makes MUNSA so unique is the professionalism of my peers as they run the conference. My junior year, I was a secretary in UNEP for the chairs Alix Rowe and Nick Scully. It was such a wonderful experience watching my friends take control and run the room. I applied to be a secretary again my senior year and was placed with Lesley Perez and Demi Asvestes in the World Health Organization room. Each of the chairs and secretaries thoroughly understand the historical development of each country in their room, especially their contemporary characteristics and beliefs. I knew all of the people in the secretariat this year and I was amazed how professional they were during the entirety of the conference. I am honored to be associated with such a program.

=Economics= In Economics my senior year, we were assigned to design policies for an underdeveloped country that was assigned to us. My class was assigned South Africa. We discussed different ways to improve in infrastructure and the non-existent water systems. We had to recognize that resources are limited and we had to consider the environmental and economic theories of resources and conservation. I took all of our research and I put our policies into a prezi. I learned how fortunate we are to have the luxury of highways and running water in the United States.

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