Leadership
Secretariat
Secretary General – Kelsie Riemenschneider
Kelsie Riemenschneider is a sophomore majoring in Biomedical Engineering with a Spanish minor at Georgia Tech. She has extensive Model UN experience from attending many conferences as a high school delegate, and this will be her third year as a GTMUN staff member. In the past, Kelsie served as the Assistant Director of the ICJ, Director of GA 1, and Assistant Secretary General. In addition to GTMUN, Kelsie is involved in many campus organizations, including the Omega Phi Alpha service sorority, MOVE tutoring, and the Honors Program. She has also conducted undergraduate research for four semesters, and is currently working in a bone and tissue engineering lab. Kelsie hopes to attend medical school after graduating.
Director General – Parsa Garrett
Conference Director – Laura O’Donnell
Laura O’Donnell is in her third year at Georgia Tech, majoring in
International Affairs and Chinese. She is experienced in Model UN.
She participated in competitive Model UN throughout high school and
has held the following positions the last three years at GTMUN: Director of the Security Council, Director of GA 4, and Assistant-Director of GA 1. She enjoys studying languages and has taken classes in Chinese, French, and Spanish. She hopes to one day be able to make clever puns in languages other than English. She thinks that French humor is very Sarkoztic.
Senior Technology Advisor – Emilio Salazar
Emilio Salazar is in his second year of a Biomedical Engineering/Computer Engineering double major at Georgia Tech. He has been doing Model UN for five years. At GTMUN, he has been an Assistant Director for GA4, and has also served as Assistant Conference Director. This year, he has the honor of designing the very shoes he will be filling for this new secretariat position, and he expects to make them big enough for others to want to wear. In whatever time he has left over from classes and MUN, he TAs a Tech class, practices Hapkido, and, when he’s not being lazy, likes running.
Faculty Advisors
Dr. Molly Cochran is Director of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. She has a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses include ethics and international affairs, international relations theory, global democratic theory and justice debates, and interstate and non-governmental organizations. Dr. Cochran is the author of Normative Theory in International Relations: A Pragmatic Approach and articles in the Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and Millenium. At present, she is writing a book entitled Democratic Global Governance and International Public Spheres. She is on the editorial board of Contemporary Political Theory and a reviewer for several journals and presses. She recently returned from working at Human Rights Watch in London as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow.
Dr. William J. Long is the Chair of and a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University. His research focuses include international conflict resolution and international trade and technology transfer and their relationship to national security, economic competitiveness, and international cooperation. Under his tenure, the School’s faculty expanded by over fifty percent and external sponsorship increased several fold. He is the author of three books: War and Reconciliation, Trade and Technology Incentives and Bilateral Cooperation, and U.S. Export Control Policy. He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters. He is the recipient of research and teaching awards from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hewlett, Pew, Sloan, McCune and MacArthur Foundations, the Fulbright Commission, the Carnegie Corporation, the European Union, and the U.S. Department of Education. Before entering academics, he practiced international law at the Washington, D.C., offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, & Garrison and Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.