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Model United Nations

UWill Discover Model United Nations

Date: November 22, 2025 (UWill Discover MUN)
Location: University of Windsor

Congratulations to our 2025 UWill Discover MUN participants. Here are some photographic highlights from the event.

Award Winners

Award winners standing shoulder to shoulder.
Award winners
  • Pranjal Reen — Best Presenter — Combined Honours in Political Science and Sociology (China)
  • Victorieuse Sambao — Best Delegate — Honours Law & Politics and representing Outstanding Scholar (Sweden)
  • Aanustup Singh Rathore — Best Position Paper (United States of America)

Honourable Mentions

Honourable mention participants standing shoulder to shoulder.
Honourable mentions
  • Munty Al-Bazaz — Honourable Mention — Industrial Engineering (Honduras)
  • Jeniuz Ok — Computer Science (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)
  • Trevor Ramieri — International Relations (Denmark)

Meet our 2025 UWill MUN Team

MUN committee members holding a UWill network sign.
2025 UWill MUN team

Front row: Zeina Abou Haidar, Elizabeth Spiridon, Tricya Alonzo, Sohila Sidhu, Sam Dade
Middle row: Matthew Najem, Damian Bossom, Dr. Tim Brunet (UWill Discover Project Chair), Chancellor Dwight Duncan (Honoured Guest Speaker), Taibat Idris
Back row: Eric Joshi

UWill Discover students build leadership — and pass it on

Secondary school students participating in the UWinMUN conference in a tiered lecture hall at the University of Windsor.
Secondary school students take part in the UWinMUN conference hosted at the University of Windsor.

UWill Discover Model United Nations shows how experiential learning grows at the University of Windsor: students first develop their own skills in research, diplomacy, public speaking, and leadership, and then create those same opportunities for others.

In spring 2026, UWill Discover student leaders helped host UWinMUN, welcoming secondary school students from across Windsor-Essex to campus for a full Model United Nations experience. The event gave high school students the chance to debate global issues, draft resolutions, strengthen their confidence, and experience university-level learning in action.

Led in part by Matthew Najem, Model UN president and secretary-general, and Taibat Idris, vice-president and deputy secretary-general, the conference highlighted an important part of the UWill Discover model: UWindsor students do not simply participate in high-impact learning — they grow into mentors, organizers, and community leaders who extend that learning outward.

This student-to-student pathway is central to UWill Discover. By learning these skills at the university level and then sharing them with younger students, participants help build a culture of leadership, communication, and civic engagement that reaches well beyond campus.

Read the campus news story about the UWinMUN secondary school conference.

Photos from the UWill Discover MUN for University Students (photo credit: Zeina Abou Haidar).

Representative from China speaks from the crowd.
Representative for China
Representative from North Korea speaks from the crowd.
Representative for North Korea
Representative from Nepal speaks from the crowd.
Representative for Nepal
Students gather in a scrum in the middle of the room.
China leads the scrum
Students gather in a scrum in the middle of the room.
Early meeting scrum
Representatives from Indonesia, Ghana and Rwanda smiling from their seats.
Representatives from Indonesia, Ghana and Rwanda
Students standing shoulder to shoulder before the event.
Students strike a pose before the event

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UWill Discover National Model United Nations Success

UWill Discover team holding a UWindsor flag at the National Model United Nations event in Washington, DC.

The UWill Discover Model United Nations team of ten won a Distinguished Delegates award among more than 900 students from North America and beyond. Malaka Asfari won an Outstanding Position Paper award among more than 100 delegates at the International Organization for Migration meeting. Congratulations to Sona Regonda, our head delegate, for her work leading our team for both the on-campus Model United Nations event at UWindsor and Washington, DC.

“National Model United Nations is a standout experiential learning opportunity that helps students build leadership skills,” says Dr. Brunet.

The activities involve research, public speaking, writing, collaborating, diplomacy, adjusting listening positions, and having honest conversations about globally complex targets.

  • Anastasia Kulaga — History and Political Science
  • Eric Joshi — Political Science
  • Faadel Asfari — Business
  • Femi Soluade — Political Science
  • Jana Jandal Alrifai — Environmental Studies
  • Kennedy Murray — Education (Graduate Student)
  • Linda Nguyen — Integrative Biology
  • Malaka Asfari — Sociology and Criminology (Graduate Student)
  • Sona Regonda — Integrative Biology
  • Yoha Llacza Chavez — Business (Graduate Student)
 

UWill Discover Model United Nations (at UWindsor)

The UWill Discover Sustainable Futures Model United Nations Team presented its second on-campus Model United Nations event on November 2, 2024, at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law. Learn more about the event and see the award winners in the November 20 Daily News article. Keep an eye on this page for future developments related to the UWill Discover Model United Nations events for UWindsor students.