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Orly Boland

Secretary-General

Claire Czajkowski

Director-General

Claire Czajkowski is a Junior studying International Studies, Political Science, and Russian, with a Certificate in History. Hailing from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, she has been a lover of Model UN for years and is currently serving as the President of WiscoMUN, at UW-Madison. Her favorite committee ever was Tsary, not Tsary: Catherine the Great, at ChoMUN 2026, which was a gender minority committee. Claire loves napping, travelling internationally, and reading in the limited free time she has.

Brayden Pennings

USG of Conference Operations

Brayden Pennings is from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and he is an International Studies - Global Security major. He lived out in Colorado after graduating high school and has a unique admiration for the mountains. Brayden's academic areas of interest are the Nordic model, feminist foreign policy, and advanced capitalist social democracy. Relatively new to Model UN, his favorite (and only) committee thus far was the WHO at HoosierMUN at Indiana University.

USG of Finance

Miriam is a sophomore majoring in Biochemistry, with a certificate in Religious Studies on the pre-med track. She is from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin. She staffed WHSMUN 54 last year in the back room, but was also a delegate for 2 years when she was in high school. She is also a leader in InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and works as a nursing assistant at UW Health. A fun fact about her is that she loves visiting and exploring national parks!


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Talula Hayes

USG of External Communications

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Miriam Israel

Talula is a freshman majoring in journalism at UW-Madison. Originally from Naperville, Illinois, this is her first year involved with Model United Nations. She has attended multiple conferences in WiscoMUN and was a backroom staffer for last year's WHSMUN. Her favorite committee thus far has been the McMUN Asian Development Bank committee. She has two dogs back home, Poppy and Sam, and is very excited for this year's WHSMUN!


Ava Seib

USG of Internal Communications

Ava is a junior from Los Angeles, California. She is a triple major, studying political science, international studies on the global security track, and Chinese, with a certificate in French. So far, her favorite committee was at CIAC 2026, where she competed as Circus Baby in the Five Nights at Freddy’s Joint Crisis Committee in the animatronic bloc. She was the chair for DISEC during the 54th session of WHSMUN, and a fun fact about her is that she studied abroad and interned in Taiwan this past summer!

Bennett Warp and Angeline Morgado

USGs of Staff and Delegate Services

Bennett is a sophomore studying Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and French at UW-Madison. Originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, he got to experience WHSMUN as a delegate twice, in DISEC and SPECPOL. He then joined the WiscoMUN travel team as a delegate on the collegiate circuit, and WHSMUN last year as a chair. He specifically enjoyed an Ebola committee at TennMUN (Knoxville, TN) and chairing the JCC on the War of the Roses in WHSMUN 54. He's thrilled to put on another spectacular conference and is out to prove that even the STEM majors can put on a diplomat's hat every once in a while.

Angeline is a junior studying Political Science, International Studies, and Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies, with certificates in Gender and Women's Studies and Leadership. She is a Venezuelan International student. She has staffed the WHSMUN 53rd, 54th, and now the 55th sessions as the USG of Delegate Services. Her favorite committee was the bilingual crisis committee at NCSC. A fun fact about her is that she speaks three languages (English, Spanish, & Portuguese) & she was a youth representative for an international organization at the UNGA at the UN headquarters.


Michael Raffel

USG of the General Assembly

Michael is the USG of GA for the 55th session of WHSMUN. He is a junior Political Science and Economics student from Middleton, Wisconsin. This is his second year with both WiscoMUN and WHSMUN. My favorite committee that he has been in was his ECOFIN committee, which he chaired last year at WHSMUN. A fun fact about him is that he is studying abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland, this fall!


Jason Malina

USG of the Regional Bodies

Jason is a junior from Northbrook, Illinois, studying history, international studies, and Latin American studies. So far, he has been involved in both the university's MUN team as a travel delegate and the WHSMUN conference on the dais for two years. His favorite committee was at Harvard's conference, in which the general assembly ad hoc was the leadership of the Hunger Games. Additionally, he is looking forward to spending the first half of his year abroad in Seville, Spain.

Valery Vaysberg

USG of the Specialized Agencies

Henri Stilling

USG of the Crisis Committees

Henri is a Junior studying Political Science and History with certificates in German and Educational Policy. He is from Greendale, Wisconsin, and attended WHSMUN when he was in high school, which inspired him to join WiscoMUN in college! He is now Vice President of Training for WiscoMUN. His favorite MUN committee was the Babington Cipher Crisis at ChoMUN 2026! Fun fact: Henri studied abroad in Berlin in the summer of 2026!


The 55th Secretariat