 Kim AustinMajor and minor: Interdisciplinary humanities, editing Staff position: Copyeditor, Instagram manager Milestone moment in your life: Getting married on January 2, 2015, in the Las Vegas Nevada Temple Unique hobbies and interests: Shakespeare’s writing. I’ve probably watched at least 20 different versions of Hamlet. |
 Austin BurtonMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Web director Mission: New Delhi, India (2008–10) Interesting fact: Growing up, I had alpacas, lizards, and hedgehogs for pets. Favorite Quote: “I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.” —Douglas Adams |
 Natalie Cherie CampbellMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Production manager, support team managing editor Career Goals: Graduate school in Women Studies and Religion focusing on female spirituality Favorite quote: “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.” —Hāfez Unique hobbies and interests: Firefly by Joss Whedon, folk dance, fun crafts like crocheting |
 Marissa ComptonMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Assistant managing editor, Facebook manager Favorite scripture: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden . . . and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” —Matthew 11:28–30 Unique hobbies and interests: Good foreign films, questionable foreign TV, yoga, postcolonial literature |
 Katie CutlerMajor and minors: Linguistics, editing, psychology Staff position: Support team editor Unique hobbies and interests: Playing the harmonica, speaking Cantonese, beatboxing Favorite quote: “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees takes off his shoes; the rest sit round and pluck blackberries.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
 Amber DaltonMajor and minors: Public relations, editing, business management Staff position: Public relations director Favorite quote: “Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson One item on your bucket list: To run or do a race in every state |
 Katie HollingsworthMajor and minors: English, editing, music Staff position: Art director Favorite quote: In Shakespeare and the Nature of Women, Juliet Dusinberre argues, “Social structures do eventually change if enough questions are asked” (xl–xli). Unique hobbies and interests: Communicating in American Sign Language, baking pies, advocating human rights |
 Alissa HolmMajor and minor: Communications with an emphasis in journalism, editing Staff position: Managing editor Unique hobbies and interests: I get a crazy thrill out of a good thrift store find. Favorite lazy-day activity: Sewing a quilt or painting furniture |
 Chelsea JamisonMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Assistant art director, copyeditor Career Goals: I would love to work as a writer for National Geographic or the Church. But my real dream is to write children’s picture books and YA novels. One thing you must always have with you: Pens. It’s kind of an obsession. |
 Jonathan JibsonMajor and minor: English language, editing Staff position: Copyeditor Favorite quote: Thanks to my wife, it’s got to be John Green’s “I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” Favorite lazy-day activity: Honestly, I design research studies. Sometimes I write essays that I know won’t ever be published. |
 Sam LundMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Social media director Career Goals: Manage social media for a nonprofit organization or food website Favorite part of editing: Watching a piece of work go from good to great |
 Angela MarlerMajor and minor: Journalism, editing Staff position: Assistant public relations director One item on your bucket list: Bike around the entire coast of Taiwan Unique hobbies and interests: Studying languages, making steamed bread, eating tacos |
 Sarah PerkinsMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Assistant managing editor Favorite book or story: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” by Ursula K. Le Guin Favorite quote: “If you don’t love it, don’t buy it.” (It’s not a quote really, but it’s my mantra.) |
 Shane PetersonMajor and minors: English literature, editing, writing and rhetoric Staff position: Support team editor Favorite quote: “Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.” —Walter Lippmann Favorite book: The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky Unique hobbies and interests: World War I poetry |
 Bre SimmonsMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Assistant social media director, Pinterest manager Favorite Quote: “Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.” —George Scialabba One item on your bucket list: Visit every country before the age of 30 |
 Jessica StaplesMajor and minors: Communication disorders, English, editing Staff position: Assistant managing editor Favorite part of editing: Working as a team to create something amazing Unique hobbies and interests: Physiology, anatomy, pragmatics and semantics, children’s books (I could honestly read children’s books all day) |
 Ariel SzuchMajor and minor: English, editing Staff position: Assistant web director, Twitter manager Favorite quote: “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” —Benjamin Franklin Milestone moment in your life: When I realized my ideas mattered and that I could be a force for good in the world |
 Marvin K. GardnerStaff position: Editor in chief Position at BYU: Teaching professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, College of Humanities Current favorite quote: “When it comes to my wife, the mother of our children, . . . the feeling is so deep and the gratitude so powerful that I am left almost without expression.” —President Boyd K. Packer |
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