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Carlos Chediek exemplifies a cosmopolitan outlook and the intellectual perspective gained from a liberal arts education. The son of an official with the United Nations Development Programme who moved frequently, he is proficient in English, Turkish, Spanish, and Portuguese, and has met the presidents of Peru, Nicaragua, and Brazil. However, he credits a United States president, Barack Obama, for spurring him to activism.<\/p>\n
Listening to the broadcast of Obama\u2019s last State of the Union address, \u201cI got truly inspired to be an agent of change in my community,\u201d Chediek recalls. \u201cI felt energized, ready to make a difference.\u201d Joining NYPIRG\u2019s voter registration drive, he signed up more than 1,700 students in 2016. That led to his current role as Queens College ambassador for the Andrew Goodman Foundation and its nonpartisan Vote Everywhere project, for which QC has the main campus chapter. Chediek is proud of the foundation\u2019s legacy and the importance of its work, noting that Andrew Goodman\u2019s killers \u201cstifled not only his voice, but also the voices of those he could potentially have registered that year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ambassadorial responsibilities take Chediek from classrooms to student spaces and included hosting a midterm watch party for 30 students. In addition, as a political science major, he has been a teaching and research assistant for Michael Krasner. For a comparative course on the ascent of the political right, Chediek examined how Brazilian celebrities had risen to public office; facilitating conditions across otherwise different countries included \u201chigh degrees of political instability, a very negative outlook from the population toward the government, and a polarizing or celebrity-like figure joining the government and being seen as a savior, just by not having that much political experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Further diversifying his background, Chediek chose to minor in Business and Liberal Arts because, he explains, \u201ceverything\u2019s related in life. Being aware of what\u2019s going on in business will give you a very good baseline with which you\u2019ll be a more effective worker, communicator, and leader.\u201d After graduation, he wants to work as a paralegal in order to take the first steps in becoming a lawyer.<\/p>\n
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