My name is Kristina Tester, and Rachel Wilson and I will be your senior staffers this year. We are both so excited to be working with you, and we have chosen briefings that we hope you will find engaging and exciting.
HMC has been a huge part of my collegiate experience. I have been a staffer at both the Boston and Europe conferences, chairing the Environmental and Public Works Committee and the World Health Organization, respectively. I am thrilled to be staffing Intelligence this year, especially with all of the recent news surrounding Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden. One of your two briefings is going to be focused on the reshifting of Al Qaeda alliances and what the U.S.’s role towards terrorist groups in a post-Bin Laden atmosphere should be.
Hello everyone! My name is Rachel Wilson, and I am a senior Government concentrator from the great state of Texas. HMC 2012 will be my fourth conference in Boston but eighth overall model congress conference, because I have also staffed the Europe and Asia conferences. As for HMC Europe, I am currently the President for this year’s conference. Besides Harvard Model Congress (of course!), I love sports, traveling, Spain, the Texas Rangers, the UT Longhorns, and summer.
Harvard Model Congress is a great organization that allows you to simulate Congressional committees, party caucuses, and full sessions. You will have the exciting opportunity to play the role of an actual Senator and apply their ideology to the topics that we will be discussing. In our committee meetings, you will debate and draft bills, all working towards the common goal of providing the solution for important issues. HMC is a fun and unique way to learn about our nation’s government and the issues it faces, while meeting great people and having lots of fun!
This year we will be focusing on the issues of terrorism and Guantanamo Bay, which are both extremely important and difficult topics facing the US. We hope that you will work together in order to provide viable solutions to these issues, and we look forward to hearing some good debate on these hot topics.
As the conference approaches, please don’t hesitate to email us with any questions, comments or concerns you might have. We want to make this the best possible experience for you, so let us know if there is anything we can do.
We look forward to meeting you in the fall!
Cheers,