Abdullah Enes Kut is a senior Political Science student at UC Berkeley, where he serves as a Public Service Center Student Leader, College Corps Fellow and student writer for the Berkeley Political Review. Specializing in international relations, his coursework examines the social, political and economic fabric of developing societies, with a focus on power structures, interstate coercion, and the argument for modern state sovereignty. As a George A. Miller Research Scholar, he has completed a faculty-sponsored thesis on how founding ideology sustains regime legitimacy through mass structural reform, using post-1979 China as a case study.
He puts the theory to work as Under Secretary-General of Crisis for UC Berkeley Model United Nations, directing five crisis committees for the annual BearMUN conference while competing as a delegate each semester. As West Coast Ambassador for the National Council on Civil Advocacy, he represents the Turkish-American community before forty-plus legislators on democratic backsliding in Türkiye. This Fall, he was invited by the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly to present as a youth panelist on political depolarization efforts in the American diaspora.
Much of his practical training comes from the office of Congresswoman Doris Matsui, where he produces weekly policy memoranda on housing, transportation and immigration, drafts statements for the Congressional Record, and handles federal casework with USCIS, the IRS and Veterans Affairs. That work is rounded out by his role as press secretary of Embrace Relief North California–an international non-profit serving four continents–where he co-hosted a 2024 art gala raising over $5,500 for St. Jude Children's Hospital, facilitated the opening of three water wells in rural East Africa, and now runs donation drives for unhoused shelters in San Francisco.
Outside politics, Enes runs a college counseling business, paints and writes poetry, with a first book due at the end of 2026. He also works off-duty as a fashion model, walking three to four runways and appearing in five-plus editorials annually.
Major(s): Political Science
Minor(s): Global Poverty & Practice
