. Mosaic Explore was founded in 2014 by Cristina Drondoe with the scope of offering New Hampshire homeschool kids a-la-carte high quality, engaging classes taught by paid, highly experienced, and passionate teachers and run by dedicated staff. During its first 5 years, the program offered hundreds of courses, numerous theatre and musical performances, as well as Model United Nations training.
Cristina was born and raised in Romania, where she completed her M.Sc in Computer Science. In 1999, she moved to Helsinki, Finland to work for Nokia in their billing for the mobile industry department. She transferred to the US in 2001 to continue her work. She furthered her education by completing an MBA. Cristina has two children, Ilinca and Luca, whom she’s been homeschooling for about 12 years years. Ilinca is a student at Wellesley College, where she is intending to double major in Political Science and Peace and Justice.
In 2015, intrigued by Model United Nations, Cristina decided to bring this opportunity to the homeschool community in New Hampshire. That year she started teaching and preparing students for conferences through a collaboration with the Political Science Department of the UNH and their Model UN team Advisor and leaders. During the summer of 2016 she attended an Advisor training through the Model United Nations Institute, an educational company with the mission of “Model UN for All.” In 2019, she restructured Mosaic Explore to focus it entirely on Model UN, and it became known as Mosaic Model UN, or MOSMUN.
Cristina is continually fine-tuning and refreshing course content in order to facilitate learning for both old and new students. Motivated to keep on expanding her knowledge, she completed the “Global Diplomacy: the United States in the World” course through SOAS University of London and the “Intro to Peacebuilding” course through the US Institute of Peace. For the past two years she has been one of the Education Ambassadors for the Council of Foreign Relations.
During the past 8 years, our Model UN delegation has attended 21 conferences across North America, winning 42 individual awards, 6 verbal commendations, as well 1 Best Delegation Award and 2 Outstanding Delegation Awards.