Mohammad Atiya is the Community Director at Model UN Academy, the world’s largest youth-led educational Model UN nonprofit, with 18,000 students across 101 countries. As Community Director, he leads the Ambassador program, establishing grassroots-level relations with schools worldwide. He also maintains Model UN Academy Chapters and a select number of partnerships.

Mohammad is a current Political Science student in DePaul University’s 3+3 BA/JD Program, He’s also a Civic Justice Organizer Fellow and the Co-Lead for the 2025 Young Adults Civic Leaders Fellowship at the Muslim Civic Coalition.

Mohammad has attended 32 conferences (7x international qualifier) and won 28 awards (6 international). He’s the Vice President and Under Secretary General of DePaul University Model UN. He built DePaul’s first high school Model UN conference from the ground up, hosting over 400 delegates from the Chicagoland area. As the former Secretary General of General Assemblies for Carl Sandburg High School, Mohammad also helped host and plan Carl Sandburg’s conference, which hosted over 750 delegates during his senior year. Furthermore, he served as a Committee Chair for Chicago International Model UN and Carl Sandburg Model UN. He continues to remain active as a delegate at the collegiate level.