Winter 2019

Natasha Andersen

Major and minor: English; Editing

Hometown and state: Morgan, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights Staff: Assistant managing editor; Design team member

Dream job: Novel editor—or professional dessert taster

Favorite conference talk: The Infinite Power of Hope” by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

One item on your bucket list: Learn how to decorate fancy cakes

Connect with Natasha on LinkedIn.

Megan Anderson

Major and minor: English; Editing

Hometown and state: South Jordan, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Copyeditor; PR director

Dream job: Freelance editor

What is something hard that you have done in your life? I am currently taking sixteen credits and working, and I did that last semester as well.

If you could have dinner with any person (living or dead, real or imagined), who would it be? Abraham Lincoln

Jillian Argento

Major and minor: Communications (News Media); Editing

Hometown and state: Pittsburg, California

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Social media director

Dream job: Communications specialist for local government

Personal motto: Make it happen. Shock every single one of them.

Favorite book: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Connect with Jillian on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Matt Baker

Major and minor: Economics; Business Management

Hometown and state: Spanish Fork, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Editor in chief

Dream job: Professor

Do you speak any foreign languages? Hungarian

Favorite conference talk: “Three Choices by Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

Connect with Matt on Twitter.

Laura Bushman

Major and minor: major: Elementary education; minors: TESOL K-12, Editing

Hometown and state: Joseph City, Arizona

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Copyeditor; Web/copyrights team member

Dream job: Elementary school teacher

Unique hobbies: Running

Favorite book: All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Ellie Castillo

Major and minor: Linguistics; Editing

Hometown and state: Pocatello, Idaho

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; PR team member

Dream job: Mom and linguistics professor

Most memorable thing you’ve done in the past year? It’s been quite the year, so I have two very memorable moments. First, I lived in my van over the summer while working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and second I got engaged!

What must you always have on your person? Chapstick—it’s a necessity!

Connect with Ellie on Instagram.

Emily Cook

Major and minor: major: English; minors: Editing, Digital humanities

Hometown and state: Springville, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Web/copyrights director

Dream job: Editor for the Church

Favorite conference talk: The First Great Commandment” by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

One item on your bucket list: Visit Hilltop Farm

Connect with Emily on Instagram and LinkedIn.

Saralee Dunster

Major and minor: major: English language; minors: Editing and TESOL

Hometown and state: Savannah, Missouri

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Social media: Facebook manager

Dream job: Something involving traveling around the world

Unique hobbies: Watching the behind-the-scenes of my favorite movies, having musical jam sessions, learning a language, collecting stationary, Bollywood dancing, etc.

If you could be any superhero, who would you be? Violet from The Incredibles

Alec Harding

Major and minor: major: Psychology; minors: Editing, Business

Hometown and state: Provo, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Social media: Twitter manager 

Dream job: Forensic social worker

Unique hobbies: Model building and painting

Favorite conference talk: Personal Strength through the Atonement of Jesus Christ” by Elder Richard G. Scott

Sarah Harris

Major and minor: English language; Editing

Hometown and state: Niles, Michigan

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Design director

Dream job: Professor and researcher of Old English

If you could be any superhero, who would you be? Wonder Woman

Most memorable thing you’ve done in the past year: I went on a study abroad to Great Britain and Ireland with my husband.

Teya Jensen

Major and minor: majors: Communications (advertising), Russian; minor: Editing

Hometown and state: Hilo, Hawaii

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Assistant managing editor; Social media: Instagram manager

Dream job: It would be fun to work with Bonneville Communications working with the Church on projects like the Light the World campaign!

Unique hobbies: I play the violin and am studying patterns between Russian and English memes for a thesis project.

What must you always have on your person? I always carry band-aids and chapstick, because when you need them, it’s too late to go find them.

Robbyn Merrell

Major and minor: Editing and publishing; English language

Hometown and state: Mapleton, Utah

Positions on Mormon Insights staff: Substantive editor; Web/copyrights team member

Dream job: Freelance fiction editor

Unique hobbies: I love to play Water Polo.

If you could be any superhero, who would you be? A jedi. (I know, not really a superhero, but being able to use the force is definitely my dream, so there.)

Kimber Severance

Major and minor: English; Editing

Hometown and state: Montgomery, Pennsylvania

Positions on Mormon Insights Staff: Copyeditor; Social media: Pinterest manager

Dream job: Editor, author, or illustrator/graphic novelist

Favorite book: The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Favorite vacation spot: Bar Harbor, Maine

Mackenzie Sinclair

Major and minor: Editing and Publishing; Political Science

Hometown and state: Zionsville, Indiana

Positions on Mormon Insights Staff: Managing editor; Design team member

Dream job: Astronaut

What is your perfect pizza? Deep dish supreme (Chicago style).

If you could be any superhero, who would you be? Captain America

Savanna Stone

Major and minor: English; Editing 

Hometown and state: Redding, California

Positions on Mormon Insights Staff: Assistant managing editor; design team member

Dream job: Editor, author of fiction

One item on your bucket list: Go to Italy

Do you speak any foreign languages? Thai

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