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APPLICATIONS: If you are interested in joining the Editorial Board or Staff Contributors, see the Application page here!

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Spring 2026 Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

OLIVIA FENDRICH ’27 (oliviaf@lclark.edu)

Hailing from Denver, Olivia is a third-year political science major with minors in economics and English. As a journalist, crossword-enthusiast and lifelong writer, she has always found joy in words and the people behind them. In her spare time, Olivia enjoys ghost hunting, hiking and scouring the corners of the city in search of the best americano in Portland. Some of her favorite writers include Hanif Abdurraqib, Chris Kraus and Albert Camus. In her reluctant last semester with The Mossy Log, she hopes to highlight key issues on campus while connecting Lewis & Clark with the broader Portland community. Olivia is always down to talk about journalism — chat with her anytime.

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Managing Editor

FIONA EILERS ’26 (feilers@lclark.edu)

Fiona is a senior from Scottsdale, Arizona majoring in political science. After she graduates into an abysmal job market, she hopes to enter the field of international law (or politics) and work as a freelance journalist on the side. Her favorite novel is The Idiot by Dostoevsky and her favorite political theorist is Hannah Arendt. She’s excited to continue her work as Managing Editor helping the team provide accurate, well-written coverage on topics relevant to LC’s community. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing, running and contemplating the socioeconomic state of the world.

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Business Manager

ANNA DREHER ’26 (adreher@lclark.edu)

Anna Dreher is a senior economics major from Northern California, and is very excited to be the business manager for The Mossy Log this year! They have been participating in Mossy Log content for years in the form of funny quips and thoughtful suggestions to their various friends on staff, but this is their second semester getting paid for all that genius. They are in charge of lots of things such as contracts, payments, budget and most importantly layout dinner. Reach out to them anytime with questions. Anna loves the NYT connections, their Subaru Outback, Natalie, going to Winco and watching Jimmy Kimmel on Youtube dot com. You can find them in econometrics office hours, the kitchen or at one of their other three jobs.

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Web Manager

SICILY SCHROEDER ’26 (sschroeder@lclark.edu)

From Sacramento, California, Sicily is joining the Mossy Log for her senior year as web manager. She is a senior Computer Science and Mathematics major, as well as a French major, who loves cooking, drawing and the outdoors. Sicily is also a dedicated lover of movies and music, always open to the new and weird. Always in pursuit of funky and off-kilter hobbies and events, she loves to hear about what has yet to be encountered!

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Copy Chief

BRADY VINLOVE ‘28 (brandyv@lclark.edu)

Brady is a sophomore from Denver, Colorado who is majoring in rhetoric and media studies and minoring in Hispanic studies with hopes of working in journalism after graduation. She is excited for her second semester with The Mossy Log as Copy Chief since she loves finding typos and researching the esoteric rules of the AP style guide. She also plays the clarinet and is part of College Outdoors. Outside of class or The Mossy Log, you will probably find Brady talking about her beloved cats, reading, going on a hike or exploring Portland to find more pink clothes and trinkets.

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News Editors

CHARLES ANDERSON ’28 (charlesanderson@lclark.edu)

Charles is a sophomore from Denver, Colorado majoring in something mysterious and unknown to all. He was a contributor last year for the Mossy Log and is excited to move into his role as editor. In his free time, he likes reading performatively, listening to The Pixies and scrolling on Instagram reels. He loves the Denver Nuggets and Hot Cheetos. His favorite tea is throat coat.

MEGAN ZIEGELE ’28 (mziegele@lclark.edu)

Megan is a sophomore majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing. She has lived her life spread across four states and currently calls Oregon her home. Megan has had a longtime adoration for reading everything she can get her hands on, but she has a sweet spot for memoirs. She has loved writing and working as an opinion editor, and is excited to serve as a news editor this spring!

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Opinion Editors

VIVIANA LOPEZ ’28 (viviana@lclark.edu)

Viviana is a transfer student from Las Vegas, NV. She is a senior studying English with a concentration in creative writing. You can spot her walking around campus in muddy shoes and a soaked hoodie (She is still not quite used to the rain). Viviana enjoys watching horror movies, reading thrillers, and loudly discussing her political opinions. From a young age, she has been known as the “most opinionated” of her family. Her mom is surely grateful she has found an outlet. Feel free to stop Viviana in the Dovecote and say hi. She is always interested in hearing your hottest takes.

MAYA HOOVER ’29 (mhoover@lclark.edu)

Maya is a first-year student at Lewis & Clark and is majoring in English with a minor in French studies and art/art history. When not working on classwork in Watzek, she can be found meandering through Sellwood with friends and staring longingly at vintage typewriters. Maya enjoys reading, painting and sewing in her free time and is working on developing a passion for the gym. To support her various hobbies and obligations Maya drinks incredible amounts of tea, so feel free to stop by and chat if you see her at the Dovecote or in the Troom! As a writer Maya prefers argumentative and analytical writing over creative, though she regularly writes poetry and has submitted her work to a variety of journals. This is her second semester working as an editor for The Mossy Log.

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Features Editors

KENDALL PANTANO ’29 (kendallpantano@lclark.edu)

Kendall is a freshman from Danville, California. She plans to major in teaching, religion and RHMS. She is also on the swim team so you can often find her poolside or at team Bon’s after practice. She loves spending time with her friends taking weekend adventures on the Pio and the TriMet. She fell in love with journalism in middle school and cannot wait to continue this love through The Mossy Log.

LANDEN OLSEN ’27 (landeno@lclark.edu)

Landen Olsen, a junior and an English major at Lewis and Clark College, is excited to begin his position as Features Editor at the Mossy Log. Landen has been involved in local theater for over ten years and has been singing for more than eleven. His first role was Charlie in A Charlie Brown Christmas, and he’s been in various other productions such as All My Sons, Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, and The Metromaniacs. He has also been doing ballet, tap, and jazz dance for five years now, including competing in international competitions, winning a bronze medal for a ballet solo at Ballet Beyond Borders. 

Landen enjoys creative writing especially short stories and poems as well as analytical writing. Beyond that, he enjoys spotting things in texts that need improvement and helping others strengthen their writing. This sometimes comes at the cost of annoying friends but serves him well for this current editorial position. In his future, he strives to be an English teacher at a college fulfilling a long legacy of teachers in his family that goes back for generations.

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Arts Editors

ZOE DIXON ’28 (zdixon@lclark.edu)

Zoe Dixon (she/her), of Reno, Nevada, is a sophomore at Lewis and Clark College, where she is double-majoring in English and RHMS. She has previously contributed to Reno’s local alternative paper, The Reno News & Review, as well as interned with The Baobab Printing Press. As a passionate devotee of Taylor Swift, an avid defender of the Oxford comma and an aspiring gym rat, she balances her editorial passions with her love of sewing. Zoe is thrilled to be an arts editor this semester, as a lover of all forms of creativity, and especially as a fashion enthusiast. Recently, she covered Fragonard’s opening of a new fashion museum in Arles, France, while travelling this past summer. She now looks forward to covering more forms of art this semester with the Mossy Log!

CAS PRIADKA ’27 (cpriadka@lclark.edu)

Cas Priadka is a Junior Psychology major, amateur artist and voracious reader. They are super excited to be returning to The Mossy Log for another semester, this time as an Arts Editor. Their work can sometimes be spotted in the Backdoor section as well.  

Cas is minoring in Asian Studies and is studying abroad in Fukuoka, Japan for spring semester. Please speak some Japanese to them—they need the practice. Afterwards, Cas hopes to continue on to graduate school to go into elementary education or child psychology. Until then, you can usually spot them on campus with their painfully gay Subaru and a Redbull in hand.

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Sports Editors

SIENA FLOCK ’28 (sienaflock@lclark.edu)

Siena Flock is a sophomore from Jackson, CA, and is currently studying Rhetoric and Media Studies, English, and Photography. She is also playing on the women’s soccer team and running their social media, working for the school’s athletic communications team, and interning for The Soccerish Podcast. Outside of school and sports, you can find her at farmers’ markets, taking photos, hiking, and thrifting.

ZOE LANG ’26 (langz@lclark.edu)

Zoe Lang is a senior at Lewis & Clark from Bainbridge Island, Washington majoring in World Languages (Russian and Spanish), the former for which she studied abroad in Daugavpils, Latvia for a semester. Zoe is an artist and writer, enjoying writing short stories in her free time as well as keeping personal journals, and has a large portfolio of artistic works, including award winning and publicly displayed drawings. In her free time she likes to rock climb, play piano, draw, and conduct her own research projects on a variety of niche topics. As a Sports Editor, Zoe is excited to cover everything sports at LC, particularly the ultimate frisbee teams Bacchus and Artemis, as a rostered member of both teams throughout her time at LC.

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Backdoor Editor and Special Projects Manager

MAYA MAZOR-HOOFIEN ’26 (mmazor-hoofien@lclark.edu)

After three well-archived years of writing and editing for The Mossy Log, Maya is thrilled to be spending her final semester serving as Backdoor Editor. Her comedic influences include Lenny Bruce, Azealia Banks and Angela Merkel. She has taken on the new role of Special Projects Manager, although she wishes the title could be changed Project Management Specialist for the funnier acronym. She has loved her time at The Log and is excited to continue to grow as a journalist, storyteller and collaborator.

Maya is an economics major and English minor, a practical poet her parents can be proud of. She has four cats back home in the Bay Area who she misses dearly. She is a recovering theatre kid and a chronic interrupter, which she realizes may be correlated. She is excited to retain her seat among the liberal media elite.

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Social Outreach Coordinator

LILAH BANDOUVERIS ’28 (lilahbandouveris@lclark.edu)

Lilah is studying SOAN and Psychology in her second year at LC. From Los Angeles, California, she is excited to be back as social media manager for the third semester in a row. Lilah is a “huge fan” of lying on grass, cooking, short-to-medium-to-long walks, driving aimlessly, a good view, looking at art, chilling and chatting.

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Visuals Editor

ROSE R. BIALK ’26 (rbialk@lclark.edu)

Rose is a senior studio arts major and religious studies minor. Having lived in Los Angeles for most of their life, Rose is no stranger to the arts and has been creating since a very young age. Some of their sources of inspiration are tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons and Vampire the Masquerade, the natural environment here in Portland and video games like The Legend of Zelda and the Dark Souls series. Previously an illustrator and occasional writer for the Mossy Log, they are stepping back into this position for their second semester as the visuals editor.

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Puzzlemaker

Bertie Mahoney ’26 (bmahoney@lclark.edu)

Bertie is a senior Theatre major and minor in French Studies and Art & Art History. They are thrilled to be vexing the LC population in new, stupider ways with their puzzles and occasional article contributions. They have been a Trip Leader with College Outdoors for two years, have sat on the board of Chabad on Campus Club since its founding, attend Climbing Team less than they wish, and take on new hobbies with a zeal that their old hobbies find upsetting. After a semester abroad in Strasbourg, France and with the infinite unsurety of post-grad looming, Bertie relaxes by showing up to friends’ houses uninvited, thinking about their role in this unstoppable world, and adding to their Letterboxd profile (@bhones). Otherwise, they have taken up residence in the theater as they work designing lights for this spring’s Thesis Festival. After graduation, they will maybe return once or twice to their home and best friend Leonard (a Great Dane) in Massachusetts before fulfilling their career goals of being a mailman and living communally with friends somewhere… TBD.

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Arts Staff Writer

LORELAI GANGO ’28 (lorelaigango@lclark.edu)

Lorelai Gango is a sophomore from Southern California. They are an RHMS major with a passion for all things arts and media, and this is their second semester writing for the arts section. When not writing reviews for the great arts productions on campus, they can be found working at Watzek library, playing tabletop role-playing games with friends or watching television and having way too many opinions about it. Some of their favorite shows include Our Flag Means Death, Interview With the Vampire and Stranger Things, but they are always looking for a new favorite.

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Features Staff Writer

GEORGE GROEBNER ’28 (xavierbedard@lclark.edu)

George Groebner is a sophomore ENVS major with a minor in music. Hailing from Seattle, he enjoys cycling, magical realism, wearing flannels, peanut butter and alluding to being in a band. He is excited to continue his career with The Mossy Log!

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Opinion Staff Writer

ZIAD MAHMOUD ’29 (zmahmoud@lclark.edu)

Ziad is a freshman international student from Alexandria, Egypt. Before coming to Lewis & Clark, he earned the IB diploma at Pearson College UWC in BC, Canada. He gained a passion for writing and politics there and is now majoring in international affairs and English with a prospective minor in RHMS. He hopes for a career in human rights law and journalism. In his free time, he enjoys writing poetry, inconsistently reading and going on rants about his unnecessarily complicated opinions. You will often see him with his headphones around campus listening to pretentious music at an unhealthy volume, feel free to say hi and ask him to name three Nirvana songs.

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Sports Staff Writer

RAMONA HERNANDEZ DE SANT’ANA ’29 (ramonah@lclark.edu)

Ramona Hernandez de Sant’Ana (she/her) is a freshman from São Paulo, Brazil. She is majoring in Rhetoric and Media Studies. Her passion for community and the stories of the people in it are what drives her to write about everything relevant to LC sports. She loves film and music, hoping to make a career of writing and directing films and releasing music that deal with the theme of community. In her spare time, she can be found watching movies with her friends, taking a long walk, playing Tetris or working on her next creative project.

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Floater Staff Writers

EMPRESS MIDDLETON ’29 (empress@lclark.edu)

Empress is a freshman majoring in English. She has lived interchangeably between Laguna, CA and Atlanta, GA, but now calls Portland home. Empress loves watching movies, baking, punk music and literature. Still in her first year at the Log, Empress has gone from Contributor to Staff Writer. Moving into her second semester, she looks forward to refining her journalism skills and learning about the publishing industry.

SCARLETT ROBINSON ’27 (scrobinson@lclark.edu)

Scarlett is a junior English major with a non-fiction writing focus and aspirations of a career in journalism. Scarlett is from Humboldt County, California and enjoys spending time in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. She is frequently found over-caffeinated in the Dovecote or lounging by the reflecting pool. She is a puzzle enthusiast, trivia try-hard and avid reader. Scarlett collects CDs and her favorite artists are Fiona Apple, Feist and Lily Allen. She expresses herself through crafty sewing projects and styling thrifted fashion pieces. Previously serving as a writer and news editor for The Mossy Log, Scarlett is excited to continue to contribute to the people’s favorite paper. 

TANVI SHUKLA ’27 (tanvis@lclark.edu)

I am Tanvi Shukla, a junior from Delhi, the capital city of India. After spending two years with The Log as an editor, I am excited to be back to contribute articles across sections. I am double-majoring in Rhetoric and Media Studies and International Affairs at LC, with a passion to pursue political journalism in the future. Outside of academics, I enjoy doing many things like cooking cozy meals, reading thriller books, chit-chatting about politics around the world, and writing poetry in my free time.

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Staff Photographer

JAMILIA ATAEVA ’29 (jataeva@lclark.edu)

Oregon-born Jamilia (also known as Jam) hopes to double major in psychology and RHMS, and is ecstatic to be back in the rain after enduring eight years of San Diego’s painfully pleasant climate. Outside of snapping photos, she can often be found scrapbooking, songwriting or working on just about anything but her schoolwork. As a certified crafty gal, she is thrilled to be contributing her photography to The Mossy Log!