We are proud to be advised by some of the most well known professionals in civil society and in the Model UN / Simulation Community. They help us to improve the impact of our work and connect us to people all over the world!
Farah Eck
Managing Director, UN Association of the USA (UNA-USA) at the UN Foundation.
Farah is Senior Director of Programs & Policies of the United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA), and within this role she oversees UNA-USA’s national programs, chapter support, communications strategy, and member engagement. Farah brings with her 7+ years of experience as a UNA-USA volunteer, serving as a Chapter President (UNA Chicago) and Board Member, and as UNA-USA National Council Member for the Great Lakes Region!
Farah’s background is in fundraising, organizational capacity building, communications, and stakeholder engagement. Prior to her current position at the UN Foundation, Farah oversaw the global Membership Division for Lions Clubs International (LCI), the world’s largest organization dedicated to improving communities through volunteer service. Before LCI, Farah served as the Alumni and Volunteer Relations Director of the Young African Leadership Initiative Regional Leadership Center East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
Farah is a global citizen who was born of a Pakistani father, American mother, and has lived and worked in 32 countries. Farah has coauthored a children’s cookbook and nutritional guide, Freddy, Fork it Over!, and is currently penning a children’s storybook based upon oral Kenyan folklore. She has a BA in advertising from Bradley University, a MA in communications and graduate certificate in nonprofit management from the University of Illinois at Springfield, and a MA in international relations and conflict resolution from American Public University.
Michael Eaton
Executive Director, National Model United Nations (NMUN)
Michael has served as full-time Executive Director of NMUN since 2004 and has helped expand its annual programming to include more than 5,000 annual college participants. Prior to his current position, he was the Director of Enrollment Services and Marketing for the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, an educational nonprofit offering social justice-based off-campus study programs. He began his undergraduate studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and attended NMUN as a student delegate. He ultimately received his B.A. in Economics, summa cum laude, from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and his M.A. in Nonprofit Management and the scholar award from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. Additional honors include being named a Truman Scholar. He has completed coursework for a doctorate in International Education at the University of Minnesota (ABD).
Michael has served as an adjunct faculty member at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota; a Trustee of the Center for UN Reform Education, a board member and past-President of the United Nations Association of Minnesota, as well as multiple terms on the National Council of UNA-USA (including currently). He resides in Minnesota with his husband and enjoys the outdoors, in particular waterskiing and kayaking.
Teri Schultz
freelance reporter, NPR and Deutsche Welle
Teri Schultz has been covering the EU, NATO, and the BeNeLux region since 2007, appearing regularly on National Public Radio, and Germany’s public broadcaster, Deutsche Welle. She has a particular interest in Afghanistan, having made six reporting trips there, and in Russia and the Nordic region, having lived and worked in Moscow and Helsinki.
Schultz helps teach media literacy and counter-disinformation to schoolchildren with the Lie Detectors organization and has held journalism fellowships in Russia and Pakistan. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Helsinki and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from New Mexico State University.
Kevin Chan
Co-Founder and CEO, BEst Delegate
Kevin – also known by his initials “KFC” – is the Co-Founder of Best Delegate, an education company that is considered the world’s leading provider of Model United Nations programs. He has grown the Model United Nations Institute summer camps to eight locations, developed summer and school year virtual Model UN programs, taught Model UN programs in 20 countries, and authored over 470 articles about Model UN and created resources that are used by over 800,000 users on BestDelegate.com every year.
He has also worked with clients including the United Nations, WFUNA, UN Foundation, and governments; helped organize a dozen conferences at the UN Headquarters in New York; and introduced United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the UN General Assembly Hall. Outside of Model UN, Kevin is active in helping entrepreneurs grow. He is a professional Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) Implementer, runs a consulting firm called Momentium, and is an active leader in the Asian American Chamber of Commerce (ACE NextGen) and the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).
Kevin received his B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, earned a Certificate in Financial Management from Cornell University, and completed Executive Education from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. Kevin has traveled to over 60 countries and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Sharon Low
Consultant Government and Public Services Solutions (GPSS), Deloitte
Sharon is a Master of Global Affairs graduate from the University of Toronto’s Munk School, and specialises in markets and innovation. She’s a Lupina fellow and Ontario graduate scholar, currently working at Deloitte in public sector consulting. Sharon’s MUN involvement spans over 25 conferences, and she enjoys coaching high school MUN and exploring farmer’s markets.
Bill Yotive
Model UN Coordinator, World Federation of UN Associations (WFUNA)
Mr. William Yotive is currently the Model UN Coordinator for WFUNA. Prior to working at WFUNA, Mr. Yotive was Project Manager of the United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project within the Outreach Division of the UN Department of Public Information for more than 14 years. He was responsible for creating educational materials for schools around the world on the United Nations and global issues on its agenda. In addition, he organized various global videoconferences for students and teachers each year at UN Headquarters on human rights, the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and the observance of the International Day of Peace.
Prior to working at the UN, Mr. Yotive was a Director of Research at Sesame Workshop which produces educational television programmes for children, such as Sesame Street. He has designed and conducted many studies to evaluate the impact that these programmes have on the cognitive, social and emotional development of children. Mr. Yotive is an Advisory Council Member of the Committee on Teaching about the UN, serves on the International Institute on Peace Education Transnational Advisory Group, and is on the Advisory Board of Rainforest Flow. Additionally, he is a Senior Scholar at the University of Memphis School of Public Health and an Off-Campus Instructor at Zhejiang University.