Press Corps
Topic Summary
The Press Corps is a unique committee in which you will take on the role of international news organizations to cover the major events across all the substantive organs of HMUN. Through interviewing delegates within the committees, you will write news articles and editorials, conduct press conferences, and design content for social media. In other words, you will be responsible for reporting the conference's occurrences with clarity and objectivity, holding the delegates accountable for their inconsistencies and decisions.
Greetings delegates!
My name is Justin Ricketts and I am so excited to serve as your director for the Press Corps Committee at this year’s HMUN! I am a junior at Harvard, concentrating in both Neuroscience and English (and/or possibly with a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy). I come from Lake Worth, Florida (about an hour north of Miami). Surprisingly, I don’t love the beach, but unsurprisingly, I’m still not the biggest fan of the Boston winters...
My first experience with Model UN came as I randomly chose to join Harvard’s Model UN team my freshman spring, and I haven’t looked back since. Beyond Model UN, I love books and music more than anything. Reading has been hard recently, but I am still on my phone at 12:00 AM every Friday morning to listen to every song that has been released. Truthfully, I’m a sarcastic, chronically-online, former pre-med, who loves word games (my Wordle streak is still going strong).
When it comes to committee, I hope this will be a unique, thrilling, and memorable experience for all of us. I value, in myself and others, creativity above most, so I’m excited to see which of many paths we will fall on, as I hope you all are!
See you soon,
Justin Ricketts
Director, Press Corps
presscorps@harvardmun.org
Harvard Model United Nations 2026