US SENATE

Specialized: US Senate and Artificial Intelligence

Background guide and position paper guidelines/submission coming soon.

Position papers are required for Specialized committees.

Welcome to the House Committee on Un-American Activities! As proud American Representatives, delegates will be tasked with routing out those nasty communists that are in every aspect of American lives. Specifically, delegates will be represent the permanent House Committee on Un-American Activities. This committee will take place in 1945 and focus on the mandate to protect “the form of government guaranteed by our Constitution,” specifically investigating suspected communists in positions of influence in 1945 United States society.

Staff

Chair

Byron Chan

Byron Chan is a 4th-year political science student with a minor in Chinese from the Bay Area. He has been a part of UCSB MUN for all four years and is currently serving as President. He is excited and honored to serve as the chair for Senate and looks forward to watching dels create fun solutions to the committee issues. Outside of Model UN, he serves as a personal chef with Hummingbird Healthy Living, working with a family in downtown Santa Barbara and in his free time enjoys watching basketball (his favorite team is the Minnesota Timberwolves).

Co-Chair

Haven Fricke-Smyth

Haven Fricke-Smyth is a fourth-year Sociology and Political Science double major from Humboldt County California. This is her third year in MUN, and she is excited to be serving as your Co-Chair for the US Senate committee in this year's conference. In her free time, Haven enjoys puzzling, listening to true crime podcasts, and adventures of any kind.

Co-Chair

Julian Alexandrov

Julian is a second year Chemical Engineering major and is from Sofia, Bulgaria. He joined the amazing MUN team at UCSB in the spring quarter of his freshman year. Outside of MUN, Julian does research, loves traveling, and cooking. After he graduates, he hopes to go into either the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, or defense industry. This will be his second time chairing and is very much looking forward to an amazing conference!

Crisis Director

Ali Yavuz

Ali Yavuz is a senior in Mechanical Engineering with specializations in Fluid Mechanics, Geothermal Energy and Design. He is going to be the Crisis Director for the US Senate committee. He started MUN with Junior MUN in elementary school and has been doing it since then with breaks every now and then. He enjoys playing basketball, drawing, and singing. He plans to go to grad school and then start his company and work with NASA interplanetary missions. You can find him building drones or giving campus tours as a tour guide around the campus pretty often. He is looking forward to the great debates and solutions you will come up in the US Senate.