Interview conducted by Tyler Jaewon Kim
Q: Could you please introduce yourselves?
Chiara: Hello my name is Chiara and I’m running for secretary general of MUNSHU.
Clem: Hi. My name is Clem – Clemire. My legal name, but most people call me Clem. And I’m writing for vice secretary general.
Q: Why did you decide to run for your positions?
Chiara: So I guess I’ll start. Being involved in MUNSHU made me realize just how passionate I am about MUN and about bringing it to this campus specifically. Especially since this association is kind of in its infancy. So I really want to help bring it into a new era. Well, maybe we can have more collaborations with other campuses or just in general, make it more fun for everyone.
Clem: Yeah. And for me personally, I was already involved in MUN ever since high school. And, I really liked participating in MUN organization this year, and I was already thinking of, like, being more involved and, about being more knowledgeable with, like, all different types of skills you could get from in an MUN organization. And, when Chiara asked, since we’re making a very good team and I felt like she was the right person to run for, I just decided to go for it.
Q: How did you choose your duo?
Chiara: I think that we just had very good chemistry when working together. It helps that as we’re not just coworkers, but also friends, so we’re able to carry that dynamic on to the association and help make it, more vibrant and more accessible for everyone.
Clem: Yeah. For me, it’s also about running with someone that, you know, I can work with on, like, serious things and not just having a friendship and getting along. It was really felt like I valued her skills, and I felt like my skills could help hers. And that way we would really, like, complement each other on that part.
Q: What are your top three priorities for next year?
Chiara: For me, it would be definitely collaborating more with the other campuses. Yeah. MUN Poitiers and Reims and Menton. But since we’re so young as an association, we haven’t really established those links. That’s definitely one of my priorities. And also just making MUN more accessible to the others, because I know it’s not as popular here compared to, for example, like Asia. So just really bringing that more into our region.
Clem: Yeah. And I think that one of our key priorities also is to, introduce diplomacy. to others in other form. so we were thinking of developing, like other types of games and clubs that could allow, people to understand what diplomacy and MUN kind of is without necessarily just having to, like, join MUN conferences in, like, more casual, like clubs or activities.
Q: What is one takeaway you want readers to have from this interview?
Chiara: I think just maybe making MUN more accessible.
Clem: Yeah. And that to us, diplomacy is like our love story.
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