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Editorial Staff
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Editor-in-Chief, BC ’25
Sona Wink
Sona is the Editor-in-Chief of the Blue and White Magazine. She loves to make crossword puzzles and feels ambivalent about jazz music, if she’s being perfectly honest. She spends an inordinate amount of time tucked away in a secret nook in Diana where she sends an ungodly amount of Slack messages.
Managing Editor, BC ’24
Anouk Jouffret (she/her)
“Anouk is a senior editor for The Blue and White. When she isn’t writing for the mag, she is listening to classic rock (the kind your 60-year-old dad likes), watching The Sopranos or film (not movies), reading modern literature (postmodern when feeling adventurous), or driving her mom’s stick shift. In other words, Anouk is a grade-A snob.”
—Becky Miller
Deputy Editor, CC ’24
Victor Omojola (he/him)
Victor is a senior editor for The Blue and White. His heart is deeply stirred by Liverpool Football Club, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock, and the general aura that permeates Avery Hall’s basement. He wishes he liked the Boston Celtics less.
Editor Emeritus, CC ’24
Claire Shang (she/her)
Claire is editor emeritus for The Blue and White. She believes in college magazines, vegetarianism, translated literature, microinfluencers, and you.
Publisher, CC ’25
Jazmyn Wang (she/her)
Zibia's The Blue and White's literary editor. Zibia is an avid adidas Samba connoisseur, cultural critic, and lover of ponds. When she’s not writing for The Blue and White, Zibia enjoys watching lengthy video essays and Mad Men “Best Moments” videos on Youtube.
Illustrations Editor, CC ’24
Kat Chen (she/her)
Kat’s The Blue and White’s illustrations editor. When she’s not working on the website, it’s a safe bet she’s stalking capybaras on the internet, sitting in class seven minutes before it starts, eating an E10 from Milano, or all of the above.
Illustrations Editor, BC ’25
Oonagh Mockler (she/her)
Oonagh's The Blue and White's illustrations editor.
Layout Editor, CC ’26
Siri Storstein (she/her)
Siri is the layout editor for the Blue and White.
Literary Editor, BC ’25
Zibia Bardin (they/she)
Zibia's The Blue and White's literary editor. Zibia is an avid adidas Samba connoisseur, cultural critic, and lover of ponds. When she’s not writing for The Blue and White, Zibia enjoys watching lengthy video essays and Mad Men “Best Moments” videos on Youtube.
Literary Editor, BC ’24
Miska Lewis (she/her)
Miska is a staff writer at The Blue and White. She loves dinner parties (you can make a three-course meal in a dorm, who knew), oat milk cappuccinos, and the eternal quest for two hammock trees on campus. Read the short stories she recycles from her creative writing workshops!
Senior Editor, CC ’24
Henry Astor (he/him)
Henry is a senior editor for the Blue and White. He's pretty good at GeoGuessr, pretty bad at guitar, and a big fan of fellow Ast*r, Ari.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Cole Cahill (he/him)
Cole is a senior editor for The Blue and White.
Senior Editor, CC ’24
Andrea Contreras (she/her)
Andrea is a senior editor for The Blue and White. Her passions include new wave and post-punk, upcycling, Spanglish slang, consuming various treats, and performing the occasional full moon hex. You can find her on a corner bench somewhere, people watching on a sunny day.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Sylvie Epstein (she/her)
Sylvie serves as B&W’s 2022–2023 managing editor. In her free time, she throws dinner parties with her roommates, polls the table about which fall boot to order, watches and re-watches Girls on HBO Max, and runs drafted tweets by everyone she encounters. All this only after each issue has been sent off to the printer, of course.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Dominy Gallo (she/her)
This is Dominy’s second round as a senior editor of The Blue and White, after a brief interlude as editor-in-chief. When she’s not waxing poetic about her love of the magazine, you’ll probably find her trying to outrun her existential dread on the Central Park bike loop or reading Joan Didion essays on the lawn.
Senior Editor, BC ’23
Kelsey Kitzke (she/her)
When she’s not bumping into fellow Blue and Whiters at Hungarian, you can find her swinging out all her trials, tribulations, and triumphs on the swing sets in Riverside.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Will Lyman
Will is a senior editor for the Blue and White. He didn't come here to make friends.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Benjamine Mo (he/him)
Ben is a senior editor for the Blue and White. He’s majoring in Ethnicity & Race Studies with a specialization in Asian American Studies and is passionate about community advocacy. He believes in ghosts, can’t resist a bad pun, and indulges in long walks in Riverside Park.
Senior Editor, CC ’23
Eliza Burns Rudalevige (she/her)
Eliza is one of The Blue and White’s senior editors. When she's not workshopping your lovely poetry and prose submissions, you can find her cosplaying as a Barnard dance major, rewatching the Great British Bake Off, or agonizing about the starting salary of a publishing professional.
Senior Editor, CC ’24
Muni Suleiman
Muni is a staff writer at The Blue and White. She says that there's nothing she loves quite like fall weather and festivities, but her Twitter addiction, tote bag collection, and tendency to people-watch beg to differ. Being a parking lot philosopher is her favorite side gig.
Digital Editor, CC ’26
Jorja Garcia
Jorja is a digital editor for the Blue and White. Deeply concerned with mortality. They love all things skull and bones, handwritten letters, and the smell of sharpies.
Writing Staff
Staff Writer, CC ’26
Sagar Castleman
Sagar is a staff writer for the Blue and White. He likes running and Hugh Grant.
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Iris Chen (she/her)
Iris is a Blue and White staff writer. She loves peaceful walks through cemeteries and the color blue.
Staff Writer, BC ’23
Margaret Connor (she/her)
Margaret’s a staff writer. Between her quest to visit every Manhattan arthouse cinema and feeding strychnine to pigeons in the park, she scrambles to find time to write. (She gets her highest word counts at Hungarian, incidentally.)
Staff Writer, CC ’26
Schuyler Daffey (she/her)
When she’s not searching for her Mr. Darcy, critici(s)ing American spelling conventions, and listening to rain sounds, you’ll find her sunbathing on the lawn in the dead of winter and probably apologi(s)ing to someone somewhere.
Staff Writer, CC ’25
Steven Rex Dames (he/him)
Stephen is a staff writer at the Blue and White. He can normally be found listening to Steely Dan, tweeting about soup, or re-reading old posts on Mark Fisher’s k-punk. He enjoys long dinners, Clarice Lispector, and the 1990 film Metropolitan.
Staff Writer, CC ’26
Adrienne deFaria (she/they)
Adrienne is a staff writer for the Blue and White. Her soul is fed by "moss garden"-scented incense, clear lip gloss, and a healthy dose of melodrama. She'll never tell you about her Twitter alter ego.
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Amogh Dimri (he/him)
Amogh's a Blue and White staff writer. You can find him nursing an IPA at Arts and Crafts, playing spikeball on the lawns, and watching old Anthony Bourdain episodes. Sometimes in that order.
Staff Writer, BC ’25
Cat Flores (they/she/he)
Cat is a staff writer for The Blue and White.
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Jake Giodell
Jake is a staff writer for the Blue and White.
Staff Writer, BC ’23
Sadia Haque (she/her)
Sadia is a staff writer for the Blue and White. She loves a good mystery, has an obsession with booktok romance recs, and is always down for a midnight crawl to JJs. She is finding a way to manage her love for Taylor Swift.
Staff Writer, GS ’24
Madison Hu (she/her)
Madison is a staff writer at The Blue and White. She loves (other people's) birthdays and briskly walking down the street with her weekly song fixation blasting in her earbuds.
Staff Writer, CC ’25
Josh Kazali (he/him)
Josh is a staff writer and the leading Peanuts scholar at Columbia University (a self-designated title, but one he stands by). He likes films with running montages and ending dance numbers, and has been slowly amassing a collection of Blu-Rays despite his notable lack of a Blu-Ray player.
Staff Writer, BC ’24
Molly Leahy (she/her)
Molly is a staff writer for The Blue and White. On a sunny afternoon, you can find her investigating New York City's ice cream scene, hammocking in Sakura Park, or intercepting dog walkers. On a rainy day, she is likely texting her mom for photos of her cat/son, Mr. Schmidt.
Staff Writer, CC ’23
Clara Kraebber (she/her)
Clara is a staff writer for The Blue and White.
Staff Writer, BC ’24
Molly Murch (she/her)
Molly is a staff writer and a fan of mangoes. She spends her days trying to convince her friends to watch Kissing Jessica Stein, dealing with violent nosebleeds in Diana's fifth floor bathroom, and hiding the fact that she's an economics major.
Staff Writer, CC ’23
Briani Netzahuatl (she/her)
Briani is a full-time staff writer and pop culture consumer. When she’s not writing or learning about random 2000s celeb drama, she’s crocheting her entire wardrobe, watching GBBO, sipping on a Russian coffee, or wishing she was doing all of the above.
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Leah Overstreet (she/her)
Leah is a staff writer for The Blue and White.
Staff Writer, CC ’25
Anna Patchefsky (she/her)
Anna is a staff writer for the Blue and White. Most of the time, she is not solving a 2x2 Rubik’s cube, but when she is, she is sometimes able to solve it
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Sofia Pirri
Sofia is a staff writer for the Blue and White.
Staff Writer, CC ’24
Claire Schweitzer
Claire is a staff writer on The Blue and White. When she’s not distracting everyone around her in Butler 209, you can find her eating a bagel (with lox!) or overanalyzing Parks and Rec.
Staff Writer, CC ’26
Shreya Khullar
Shreya is a staff writer for the Blue and White.
Staff Writer, CC ’25
Dominic Wiharso (he/him)
Dominic is a staff writer for The Blue and White.
Staff Writer, CC ’26
Tara Zia (she/her)
Tara is a staff writer for the Blue and White. When she is not blissfully ignoring any and all word limits she can be found whisking matcha in John Jay or haggling at your local book culture. She fundamentally believes that she can solve most problems armed with platform boots, a cup of tea, and a healthy dose of delusion.
Staff Writer, BC ’23
Tarini Krishna (she/her)
Tarini is a staff writer for The Blue and White. When she’s not worrying about the magazine’s finances, she can be found drinking a cappuccino at Hungarian, making Spotify playlists for her friends, mixing cocktails, or talking about Democratic politics.
Illustrations Staff
Staff Illustrator, CC ’26
Emma Chen (she/her)
Emma is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’24
Lolo Dederer (she/her)
Lolo is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’25
Watson Frank (they/he)
Watson (they/he) is a staff illustrator and will-o’-the-wisp accidentally enrolled at Columbia College. They are known for their remarkable translucency and their peculiar habit of hoarding all things green (think dragon but with green instead of gold). Contact them on insta @wat_is_the_world to give them your green things.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’26
Cadence Gonzales (she/her)
Cadence is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’24
Maca Hepp (she/her)
Maca is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’24
Mac Jackson (she/her)
Mac is a painter and illustrator in the Columbia College class of 2024.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’25
Alexandra Lopez-Carretero (she/her)
She says she’s an English major because she likes reading, but in reality she just wants to improve her Bananagrams skills. When she’s not drawing, you can find her spacing out, photographing her friends, or reading, duh.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’23
Vanessa Mendoza (she/her)
Vanessa is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, SEAS ’23
Samia Menon (she/her)
Samia is a staff illustrator who comes from America's most celebrated metropolis, Cleveland, well-known as the New York of Northeast Ohio. While the world was falling into the villainous clutches of 2020, her wonderful time as the Illustrations Editor kept her moving forward, along with archaeology podcasts, her grandmother’s FB posts, and mediocre attempts at skateboarding. You should be able to find her at a nice little café, doing nice little math problems that are imminently due.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’26
Nayeon Park (she/her)
Nayeon is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, BC ’25
Amelie Scheil (she/her)
Amelie is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’25
Betel Tadesse (she/her)
Betel is a staff illustrator for The Blue and White.
Staff Illustrator, CC ’25
Phoebe Wagoner (she/her)
Heeey, this is Phoebe, a staff illustrator’s, bio. She enjoys traditional Appalachian music, hanging & chilling, and repetitive tasks, such as peeling crayons.
Staff Illustrator, CC '23
Hart Hallos (he/they)
Hi, I’m Hart, I’m 24, and I’m from Brighton. I’ve never really been the type to be tied down, but maybe I’ll meet the right kinda bird in the villa. My type on paper is someone who’s got good banter, a rockin’ bod, and if you don’t have the right chat, just get outta me face. Illustrator for The Blue and White on the weekends.
Staff Illustrator, BC '23
Madeleine Hermann (she/her)
Madeleine is a veteran staff illustrator for the Blue and White. She’s an arts and craft major who enjoys little treats, playing on her iPad, and just being soooo silly!