Our Lovely Staff
- 2021 -
Linnea Boice
Editor-in-Chief
Linnea is pleased to announce that after two years of mentioning “cat adoption” in her Jeopardy staff profile she has finally fulfilled that dream. Oh, also, she’ll be graduating in Spring 2021 with a degree in Creative Writing and minors in Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, and Linguistics. She likes chocolate chip cookies and floral tattoos. Most weekends she can be found playing Dungeons and Dragons at her kitchen table. Her kitty, Agnes, is delightful, dastardly, and desperately hungry for cornbread.
Niko Newbould
Fiction Editor
Niko is the fiction editor this year and couldn’t be more pleased to be a part of the Jeopardy team. She’s a lover of all things melancholy, otherworldly, and astrological with a huge soft spot for cats. A passionate writer herself, Niko has work published in Cosmopolitan Magazine (where she interned last fall!) as well as Misery Tourism. When she isn’t drowning herself in words, Niko is big on painting and making music. She’s the singer in her pop-punk band CD-Romance and also has a solo project under the alias of lilmissneeks. Here at Western, she’s a recent transfer student delving into Creative Writing and Psychology.
Lily Renner
Poetry Editor
Lily Renner is a poet and Pokémon enthusiast from the Snoqualmie Valley. She is majoring in Creative Writing with a teaching endorsement at WWU. You can often find her playing games at 5 a.m., studying at 8, and asleep by noon. Five years from now, Lily hopes to be the gay English teacher who eats lunch with the awkward kids and discusses the competitive viability of Lucario.
Dagny Safon
Non-Fiction Editor
Dagny is an optimist! She likes to read in her living room, cook with arugula, bang on drums, and skate on skateboards.
Mercedes Schrenkeisen
Print Designer
Mercedes is a graphic designer and illustrator living in Bellingham, Washington. She emphasizes the importance of process and reiteration in her work and in the pursuit of innovative design solutions (i.e. lots of sticky notes). Mercedes is particularly interested in the intersections between design and sustainability, and the ways that empathy can be utilized in the design process. She enjoys very sad Italian music and very happy Brazilian music, and when she isn’t creating she is often dancing.
Taichen Rose
Web Designer
Taichen is from the Island of Whidbey. She is currently studying Computer Science, Economics and Web Development at WWU. In her free time she can be found exploring new trails around the PNW with friends, planning out her future travels around the world, or teaching cats to open doors.