News (Print):

Christian Diaz grew up on the streets of Chicago. To escape his past, he trekked the world to India, China, Cambodia and Mexico. In 2009, he stumbled into Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina where he cultivates experience into scholarship as a Global Studies major. As News Editor of Warren Wilson’s Echo, he marvels at the absurd dramas of the excess and privilege in which he finds himself. When not researching the post-national, deterritorialized and viral nature of Mexico’s Drug War or advocating for immigration reform, Christian enjoys whipping his phantom ponytail extension to filthy dance pop, sinful late-night pastries, frothy mate lattes and Jersey Shore. Contact Christian at cdiaz@warren-wilson.edu

Timothy Burkhardt was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He likes jazz music, writing about himself in the third person, and putting his foot in his mouth at fancy parties. Timothy spent a significant portion of his 20s roving about the countryside in search of himself, or truth, or something. He finds himself now, playing the role of a Creative Writing major at Warren Wilson College. Contact Tim at tburkhardt@warren-wilson.edu

Rebecca Holcomb is a sophomore English major from Las Vegas who enjoys making music, eating spicy food, and collecting things. She is a staff writer for the Echo. Contact Rebecca at rholcomb@warren-wilson.edu

Heather Claypoole was born in Houston, but raised in the lovely Tallahassee– America’s pot smoking capital; where the sun always shines and so do the people. She is an English/Theater major, and one day hopes to pursue a career in screenwriting. She especially enjoys traveling, teaching others how to dougie, and frothy cappuccinos. When not playing music or studying in her dorm, she can be found going on a short road trip somewhere. Contact Heather at hclaypoole@warren-wilson.edu

Indy Srinath is a freshman staff writer for the Echo. Although her major is undeclared, she has no hesitancy declaring her love for ships in bottles, dinosaur-shaped cookie cutters, lower case letters, and Salvador Dali. Indy grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains and spent her childhood running barefoot and full speed through the woods of North Carolina. She hopes to become a writer someday and she will only put down her pen for a good cup of coffee and a warm muffin. In her free time she likes to read art magazines, put doodles in odd places, and look up videos of bunnies on YouTube. You can contact Indy at isrinath@warren-wilson.edu

Sam Rivkin is an English major and one of the copy editors at the Echo. When she grows up she wants to be a movie script editor. She is a tiny girl with a lot of tattoos and enjoys taking pictures, going on adventures, and getting into all sorts of sketchy mischief. Contact Sam at srivkin@warren-wilson.edu

Design:

Morgan Steele is an empowered young woman from central Maryland. She loves print media, gender equality, and her dog Tucker. She is the Design Editor for the Warren Wilson College Echo. She is majoring in Political Science and minor in Gender Studies and will graduate from Warren Wilson College in December of 2013. You can contact Morgan at morgan.emily.steele@gmail.com

Jodie Brown is a sophomore majoring in chemistry and minoring in math. This is her second semester laying out the pages of the print issue of the Echo. She is a native Alabamian who enjoys scrabble, radiohead, and bad tv. Contact Jodie at jdbrown@warren-wilson.edu

Ginny Rosson, real name, Ghensiri, is an art major who enjoys watercolors, modest mouse, and cooking. She was born in Houston, Texas, but has never lived in one place for too long. She hopes to one day have an open studio of her own somewhere on the westcoast. Contact Ginny at grosson@warren-wilson.edu

Josh Reiss is a sophomore at Warren Wilson College and this is his third semester working for The Echo as a photographer and advertisement manager. Josh loves working for the Echo because it pushes him to connect with campus as well as the local business community. Contact Josh at jreiss@warren-wilson.edu

Wyatt Pace likes to think of Wilson as his home where he wants to major in Outdoor Leadership. Currently Wyatt is working as a photographer for the Echo. He always has a camera on him and likes to take pictures wherever he goes. When he is not working for the Echo, he is usually beasting it up playing Reach or BF3. Music interests include anything under HEAVY ELECTRONIC MUSIC!!!!! Contact Wyatt at wpace@warren-wilson.edu

Multimedia:

Mariah Parker is a senior Creative Writing major, captain of the Warren Wilson step team, and a regular contributor to WNC Magazine. An emcee-wrecker, thesaurus-obsessor, and all-around word nerd, Parker hopes to one day attend graduate school for linguistics. For now, playing Scrabble and hip-hop hula hooping are enough for her. Contact Mariah at mparker@warren-wilson.edu

Micah Wilkins calls the Midwest home. The product of two great parents and the youngest of five children, she was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up thinking about the racial segregation of her city, her neighborhoods and her schools. Over the years, she has developed passions for journalism, folk punk music, old books, History, dogs, French, feminism, 30 Rock and her roommate, among other things. Micah is a junior, a History major, and a queer. This year, she is the Echo‘s web editor, and hopes to follow in the ambitious foot steps of Echo alumni Gabriel Sistare. Contact Micah at mwilkins@warren-wilson.edu

Supervisor:

Lockie Hunter is from a town in Appalachia where oral storytelling is vital to the community. Lockie tells stories. She writes to safeguard the idiomatic expressions that are fast disappearing due to gentrification of the area. Lockie holds an MFA in fiction from Emerson College in Boston and is the proud supervisor of the Echo. Her stories can be found in The Baltimore Review, Brevity, the Christian Science Monitor, McSweeneys Internet Tendency, Quarter After Eight, Hip Mama and others. Lockie has a fondness for humor, and her satire has appeared in Opium, The Morning News, University of Pennsylvania’s Problem Child, and many other venues. She is writing a novel that is certain to find her disinherited. When not on campus (bounding around the Bannerman classroom or in the Echo office) Lockie enjoys jumping off of cliffs, metaphorically and literally.

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