Junior Amelia Vogt is preparing for her third year in Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN), and is ready for the season to begin. Vogt is eager for the next conferences to start this spring. 

HMUN is a mock United Nations conference hosted by Harvard University students annually in Boston. Schools from around the world are each assigned a different UN country- and each school/country splits into their respective committees. There, they discuss and come up with different solutions to their international issues, and present them. 

Her freshman year they represented both Iran and Iraq, and Vogts’ committee dealt with the population fluctuation of those countries.

“I was on the population committee, so we dealt with migrating- focusing on population and how it’s shifting within different countries,” Vogt said. 

This past year, the high school represented the Republic of the Congo. Vogt represented the ‘Women’s Representatives,’ where they spoke and discussed issues like women’s access to education and world-wide abortion rights.

 “Last year I had claimed that girls should have education access globally. We are given background guides on your topic; we do extra research, and then you write a paper, where we present all that information to the committee,” Vogt said. 

Through her years in HMUN, Vogt has grown to become experienced in the process, work, and presentation that the club entails. Her teammates praise her knowledge of delegating, as well as her positivity during practices. 

“Amelia is very hardworking and dedicated when it comes to HMUN. You can tell she truly cares about it,” said Junior Stella Pilon, who will be entering the second year of HMUN with Vogt.

Vogt is eager to find out what country and committee herself and our school will represent this year, now that HMUN’s weekly practices have begun.