Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

Established 1874.

The Oberlin Review

2021-2022 Staff

Kushagra Kar
Editor-in-Chief

Kushagra Kar

Kushagra Kar is a fourth-year in the College of Arts and Sciences. He joined the Review in 2019 as a member of Production Staff and Layout, then proceeded to work as Opinions Editor for a year, and is now serving in his second ...

Anisa Curry Vietze
Editor-in-Chief

Anisa Curry Vietze

Anisa (she/her) is one third of the Review’s Senior Staff team. Embarking on her fifth semester as Editor-in-Chief, Anisa is excited to guide the Review through what will inevitably be another year of chaotic, last-minute news a...

Gigi Ewing
Managing Editor

Gigi Ewing

Gigi (she/her) is an English and Politics double-major from Washington, D.C. After serving as a production editor, News Editor, and now as Managing Editor, Gigi can safely say that the Review is her unofficial third major. Gigi f...

Ella Moxley
News Editor

Ella Moxley

Ella is a fourth-year who generally floats between homes in southeast Ohio, Alaska, Seattle, and Oklahoma. Besides the Review, Ella studies Environmental Studies, does research for the Economics department, and works at the Scie...

Kush Bulmer
News Editor

Kush Bulmer

Kush Bulmer (he/his) is a fourth-year Environmental Studies major from Baltimore, MD. Before working in News alongside the wonderful Ella Moxley, he was a production editor and senior staff writer. 

Emma Benardete
Editor-in-Chief

Emma Benardete

Emma Benardete (they/she) is a second-year Latin and Politics major from Dutchess County, NY. Before becoming Editor-in-Chief, Emma worked in the Opinions section, first as contributing Opinions Editor and then as a full Opin...

Abe Frato
Photo Editor

Abe Frato

Abe is a Trombone Performance and Computer Science major from Stockholm, Sweden. He works as a Photo Editor for the Review, and likes taking on all kinds of photographic challenges. When not practicing, obsessing over not practic...

Distributor

Thomas Xu

Layout Manager and Illustrator

Molly Chapin

Illustrator

Laurel Moore

Senior Staff Writer

Megan McLaughlin

Megan McLaughlin (she/her) is a fifth-year double-degree student majoring in horn performance and English and minoring in music history. This is her first and last semester writing for the Review, where she serves as a Senior...

Senior Staff Writer

Matt Rudella

Senior Staff Writer

Sierra Colbert

Adrienne Sato
Senior Staff Writer

Adrienne Sato

Adrienne Sato is a fourth-year Psychology major from Louisville, KY who works as a Senior Staff Writer at Large for the Review. She is on the women’s soccer team and is one of the co-chairs for Oberlin College Taiko. Adrienne is...

Ella Bernstein
Production Editor

Ella Bernstein

Ella Bernstein (she/her) is a fourth-year History, French, and Comparative Literature major from Houston. This is her third year working in Production. When she’s not at the Review, she can be found holed up in the library, sleeping, or wa...

Production Editor

Trevor Smith

Kayla Kim
Managing Editor

Kayla Kim

Kayla Kim is a third-year from Northern New Jersey. She’s excited and honored to work as Managing Editor after coming from the Sports section. When not sitting in a basement for hours on end, she enjoys playing in Oberlin C...

Lia Fawley
Production Manager

Lia Fawley

Lia Fawley (she/her) is a second-year Psychology and prospective Creative Writing major from Clarendon Hills, IL. She started working at the Review in the fall of 2021 as a Production Editor. Outside of the office, she manages...

Nikki Keating
Editor-in-Chief

Nikki Keating

Nikki is a third-year from Washington, D.C. and an Africana Studies and Psychology major. Besides the Review, Nikki has a WOBC-FM radio show, is a Mellon Mays fellow, and runs the campus magazine BIPOC Lenses. Nikki enjoys wat...

Sofia Tomasic
Senior Staff Writer

Sofia Tomasic

Sofia Tomasic (she/her) is a second-year majoring in Sociology and History. She went to high school in Seattle, and before that she lived in Boulder, CO. She was born in San Francisco. In The Review she works as a Senior Staff Writer f...

Juliana Gaspar
Senior Staff Writer

Juliana Gaspar

Juliana (Juju) Gaspar is a second-year international student from Brazil and the Cayman Islands. After spending two years at an international school in New Mexico, she found her way to Oberlin College. She is currently planning  (be...

Erin Koo
Photo Editor and Layout Manager

Erin Koo

Erin is a third-year Violin Performance and Neuroscience major from Hong Kong. She is the Layout Editor for the Arts section and one of the Review’s Photo Editors. When not doing Review work, she can be found in a Robertson practice r...

This Week Editor

Anna Harberger

Anna Harberger is a third year English major from Chatsworth, CA who recently joined the Review as editor of the This Week section. In between meetings and production cycles for various on-campus publications, she enjoys cooking...

Elizabeth Kannon
Production Editor

Elizabeth Kannon

Elizabeth Kannon, Liz (she/her), from Philadelphia PA, is a second-year Environmental Studies & Geology double major. She has been working at the Review since Fall 2021 as a production editor. She has enjoyed her time working at ...

Yuyang Fu
Ads Manager

Yuyang Fu

Layout Editor

Angel Aduwo

Grace Gao
Layout Editor

Grace Gao

Grace Gao (she/her) is the Layout editor for the News section. She is from Hangzhou, China, and is a fourth-year majoring in Environmental Studies and Economics. She joined the production of the Review’s special issue in su...

Layout Editor

Adrienne Hoover

Holly Yelton
Illustrator

Holly Yelton

Holly Yelton is a third-year student from Louisville, KY. In her second year working as an Illustrator for the Review, she hopes this position will facilitate a possible future career in an art-related field, but is mostly glad...

Senior Staff Writer

River Schiff

Senior Staff Writer

Sydney Rosensaft

Production Editor

Isaac Kucher

Sumner Wallace
Production Editor

Sumner Wallace

Sumner, she/her, Iowa City, IA — is a third-year Rhetoric and Media Studies major, treasurer and safetyco for the Preying Manti — Oberlin’s women and trans ultimate Frisbee team — and a production Editor for the Review. Personal in...

Khadijah Halliday
Photo Editor

Khadijah Halliday

Sports Editor

John Elrod

John Elrod is a fourth year Communication major from Oberlin, OH who has worked at the Review as a contributing sports editor since Fall 2021. He hopes to be a journalist or work in the sports world in some capacity after gradu...

Lilyanna DAmato
Arts & Culture Editor

Lilyanna D’Amato

Production Manager

Katie Kunka

Katie Kunka is a fourth-year Creative Writing major from Montclair, NJ. When she’s not consulting the Review Style Guide, she can be found making to-do lists or working in the print studio.

Claire Brinley
Production Editor

Claire Brinley

Claire Brinley uses she/her pronouns and is a third-year Environmental Studies and Mathematics major. She joined the Review production staff because she felt that between being the co-chair of the Oberlin Musical Theater Ass...

Eric Schank
Production Editor & Senior Staff Writer

Eric Schank

Eric Schank is a third-year Environmental Studies major from Atlanta. Before joining the Review, Eric contributed to The Synapse and WOBC News. Outside of journalism, his passions include cooking, gardening, homesteading, and music; ...

Columnist

Reginald Goudeau

My name is Reginald Goudeau, and I am in my second year at Oberlin College. I hope to major in Africana Studies with a Journalism concentration, and to minor in English or Rhetoric and Composition. I’m this summer’s Activism...

Illustrator

Clair Wang

Clair Wang is a third-year illustrator at the Review.

Walter Thomas-Patterson
Conservatory Editor

Walter Thomas-Patterson

Walter Thomas-Patterson is a second-year double-degree student from O’Fallon, IL studying Comparative American Studies and classical piano. This is his fourth semester writing for the Review, where he works to bridge artistic and p...

Mads Olsen
Photo Editor

Mads Olsen

Madison is an over-caffeinated second-year Environmental Studies student from Austin, Texas who prefers her puns intended. She believes pineapple belongs on pizza and you shouldn't be surprised when she stops you to pet your dog....

Zoe Kuzbari
Contributing Sports Editor

Zoe Kuzbari

Zoe Kuzbari (she/her) is a fourth-year psychology major with a business concentration from NYC. She served as a Sports Senior Staff Writer and Sports Editor before becoming a Sports Contributing Editor. Outside of the Review, Zoe is capt...

Wiley Smith
This Week Editor

Wiley Smith

Grace Wiley Smith is a third-year Law and Society and Psychology major from Portsmouth, NH. They joined production staff in March 2020. Outside of the newspaper, they’ve been a research assistant in the Psychology department, comm...

Zoë Martin del Campo
Contributing Sports Editor

Zoë Martin del Campo

Zoë Martin del Campo (she/hers) is a fourth-year Biology major on the pre-med track with minors in Chemistry and Environmental Studies from Brooklyn, NY. She has served as both Sports Editor and Contributing Sports Editor, cu...

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