Online Editors
NAME: Meagan Flynn // HOMETOWN: Huntley, Ill. // POSITION: Executive Editor
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Assistant Web Editor, Drake Magazine; copy editor, Creative Services Associates; editorial intern, Northwest Herald.
DREAM JOB: Senior writer and/or editor for Esquire, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, or GQ.
FUN FACT: I won’t read a novel unless it’s based on a true story or its author is a journalist. Actually, I don’t read many novels at all, but I want to write one eventually. Call me a hypocrite—it’s fine.
NAME: Kerri Sorrell // HOMETOWN: Iowa City, Iowa // POSITION: Webmaster
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Writer, designer & photographer for campus pubs (DrakeMag, Urban Plains, Think), several design & marketing internships, professional pinner (Good Milkshake, LLC.), co-director of a small environmental non-profit (Iowa City Summer of Solutions), avid Tumblrer.
DREAM JOB: Park ranger
FUN FACT: My biggest fears are rubber bands and living in a world without hope of an Outkast reunion.
NAME: Erin McHenry // HOMETOWN: Inver Grove Heights, Minn. // POSITION: Associate Web Editor
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Online Section Editor, DrakeMag 2011-12; Writer for DrakeMag and The Times-Delphic; Communications Intern with the Metropolitan Council in Minnesota; freelance writer for InverGroveHeightsPatch.com
DREAM JOB: Travel writer for National Geographic Traveller or publish a best-selling nove
FUN FACT: I drive a ’99 Chevy Astro van, aka Golden Eagle, or as I like to call it, Party Bus. I can also do a backflip.
NAME: Morgan DeBoest // HOMETOWN: Austin, Minn. // POSITION: Associate Web Editor
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Editorial intern, College Lifestyles
DREAM JOB: Editor-in-Chief, Marie Claire or Harper’s Bazaar
FUN FACT: I threw up in Westminster Abbey three weeks before the royal wedding.
NAME: Lauren Kassien // HOMETOWN: Kansas City, Mo. // POSITION: Assistant Web Editor
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: Blue Valley West Spotlight editor-in-chief (newspaper), Blue Valley Captivate editor-in-chief (magazine), Blue Valley West Illumination design editor (yearbook)
DREAM JOB: Food writer
FUN FACT: I’m an aspiring journalist, but I suffer from papyrophobia, the fear of paper. There’s something about the way a piece of paper feels–it seriously gives me the creeps.
NAME: Sami Smith // HOMETOWN: Sioux City, Iowa // POSITION: AssociateWeb Editor
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: I’ve been published in Chicken Soup for the Teenager’s Soul, I’m a marketing and communications intern for Fork in the Road in Des Moines, and I am the editor of That’s Forkin’ Amazing, an online holistic health and nutrition magazine.
DREAM JOB: Editing or writing for a national women’s health and lifestyle magazine or large city publication.
FUN FACT: The only thing I love more than editing is peanut butter. That’s a whole lot of love.
