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Past: Former pogo stick and Bon Jovi lover from the north suburbs of Chicago
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Present: Columbia College junior majoring in journalism and creative writing because I want to accomplish something kinda cool in her life and this is it
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Future: Writing for a publication or working on a book of nonfiction essays. If that doesn’t pan out, she'll finesse her way into marrying rich
Gretchen Sterba—Managing Editor
Bethany Newton—Social Media Editor
Past: Detroit native, who once ate paella in Barcelona
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Present: Columbia College senior magazine journalism student
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Future: Working and writing for the Detroit Red Wings
Past: California native, who first came to Chicago at 16 to learn how to make macarons.
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Present: Columbia College senior studying magazine journalism
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Future: Writer for The Coveteur, with an all-access pass to New York Fashion Week
Past: Former undocumented immigrant who never gave up on her dreams of finishing school
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Present: Mom, wife and senior majoring in magazine journalism at Columbia College, with a passion for nonprofit organizations
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Future: Work in the development and communications department for a nonprofit organization focusing on Chicago’s youth
Past: Originally from a Chicago suburb but traveled to all 50 states before she was a teen.
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Present: Columbia College senior studying journalism and Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Chronicle.
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Future: Investigative reporter for a major city’s newspaper (or whatever they have by then)
Oona O'Toole—About Us & Copy Editor
Alejandra Rodriguez—Photo Editor
Megan Bennett—Web Editor
Jonathon Sadowski
Past: A nice young lad from Racine, Wisconsin, home to Horlick’s malted milk and Case Tractors. Obama gave a speech there once. So did Trump
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Present: Sophomore journalism student at Columbia College
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Future: Looking forward to getting out in the wide, wide world
Khai Clardy
Past: From Minneapolis; you know, that place where Prince was born and there's no sales tax
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Present: Server, blogger, and journalism student. Currently reading "Between The World And Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Future: Writer, reporter and/or host for Essence Magazine before launching her own magazine & publishing company. Also, teaching young black girls unity and growth through a non-profit organization
Past: Interviewing mediocre rappers for his high school newspaper
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Present: A junior at Columbia College studying journalism and selling his soul for a paid internship.
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Future: Crippling student debt
Caleb Brennan
Cory Lesniak
Past: Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Huge White Sox fan who has been to 12 consecutive Opening Days
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Present: Columbia College journalism student
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Future: Beat writer for a Major League Baseball team
Editors
Writers
Past: Complained about the television series “Gotham,” which landed him an internship at The Hollywood Reporter
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Present: A full-time journalism student at Columbia College, more or less full-time employee at Oasis Financial. Often times he's annoyed by those two things for getting in the way of binging movies, television shows and reading comic books
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Future: Waiting (anxiously) to graduate, so he can return to sunny California as an entertainment journalist