The Irvington Voice

2023-2024 Staff

Arnav Dua
News Editor

Arnav Dua

Arnav Dua (11) is overjoyed to be back for a second year as a News Editor for The Voice. He joined The Voice to engage with the Irvington community. He enjoys reading the news and keeping up with current affairs. In his free t...

Katelyn Shen
News Editor

Katelyn Shen

Katelyn Shen (12) is thrilled to be News Editor this year, but not so thrilled about being a senior. When she’s not playing with her two adorable cats, she enjoys reading manga/manhwa and listening to songs about the pointlessness...

Misha Meswani
Student Life Editor

Misha Meswani

Misha Meswani (12) is excited to be a Student Life Editor for her second year in The Voice. She joined The Voice to learn more about the behind the scenes of Journalism and explore interesting people/events on campus. This year, ...

Sampada Vaishampayan
Opinions Editor

Sampada Vaishampayan

Sampada Vaishampayan (11) is excited to be an Opinions Editor in her second year at The Voice. She joined to learn more about the Irvington community, and is looking forward to field trips, bondings, and free food. Her hobbies...

Jessica Li
Opinions Editor

Jessica Li

Jessica Li (12) is psyched to be an Opinions Editor for Volume 32. When she’s not working (which is too often), reading women’s divorce fiction (think Gone Girl), or making dirty matchas (Ippodo supremacy), she can be fou...

Avril Brown
Humans of Irvington High Editor

Avril Brown

Avril Brown (12) is this year’s Humans Editor and she’s excited to break the wills of staff writers with an essay’s worth of edits. When she’s not slaving away organizing forms, she enjoys randomly belting musical theater...

Soham Sethi
Sports Editor

Soham Sethi

Soham Sethi (12) is a second year sports editor for The Voice. He enjoys playing basketball, watching football, and walking his dog. He is also an avid procrastinator, Scoot Henderson fan, and The Office fan. He is not superstitious,...

Ojas Vatsyayan
Sports Editor

Ojas Vatsyayan

Ojas Vatsyayan(12) is entering his third year of journalism, as a sports editor. When he’s not screaming at another play where Kyle Shanahan DOES NOT get Deebo the ball, he enjoys playing tennis, and basketball with his little...

Lynnette Chavez
Photo Editor

Lynnette Chavez

Lynnette Chavez (12) is a third-year photo editor for The Voice. Other than working on the paper, you can find her working with MEChA, baking, or hanging with her friends. She is a Utah-born Bay Area transplant. She embraces her...

Mihika Gupta
Staff Writer

Mihika Gupta

Mihika Gupta (12) is a first-year staff writer, and she is thrilled to use her passion for writing to create a positive impact on the Irvington community during her time at The Voice. When she’s not obsessively listening to...

Ashley Block
Staff Writer

Ashley Block

Ashley Block (12) is thrilled to be joining The Voice as a first-year staff writer. Through her passion for writing, she hopes to share the diverse opinions and experiences of Irvington students and staff to the rest of the sc...

Sumeet Mangat
Staff Writer

Sumeet Mangat

Sumeet Mangat (12) is a first-year staff writer looking forward to spending her first year in journalism. Her freetime is almost always taken up by anime, dramas, crime shows, K-dramas, and almost anything related to fictitious...

Dipen Prabhu
Staff Writer

Dipen Prabhu

Dipen Saravana Prabhu (12) is eager to be a first year staff writer for The Voice. He joined The Voice to combine his interests in writing and photography to share his thoughts and ideas. When he has more than 6 hours of slee...

Suhani Ahuja
Staff Writer

Suhani Ahuja

Suhani Ahuja (11) is excited to start her first year at The Voice as a staff writer. She joined The Voice because she enjoys writing and wants to be more involved with the community at Irvington. This year, she’s looking forwa...

Esha Ambre
Staff Writer

Esha Ambre

Esha Ambre (11) is looking forward to starting her first year at The Voice as a Staff Writer! She joined The Voice to meet more people and become more involved with the community at Irvington. In her free time, Esha loves listeni...

Melanie Chavez
Staff Writer

Melanie Chavez

Melanie Chavez (11) is a first-year staff writer for The Voice. Although attending her freshman year at Mission San Jose, Melanie transferred to Irvington her sophomore year. She joined The Voice to learn more about the student...

Devam Parekh
Staff Writer

Devam Parekh

Devam Parekh (11) is excited to be a part of The Voice for the first time. He joined The Voice to be more engaged with school activities and further his writing abilities.

Ishita Kapoor
Staff Writer

Ishita Kapoor

Ishita Kapoor (10) is a first year staff writer for The Voice. She loves being part of a welcoming community and looks forward to writing many different articles! In her free time she enjoys playing golf and badminton. By the...

Ashley Wang
Staff Writer

Ashley Wang

Ashley Wang (10) is a first year staff writer, and is excited for her first year in The Voice. Outside of school, she enjoys dancing, drinking iced lattes, and scrolling on TikTok. She hates hiking and running with a passion,...

Ms. Kamal
Advisor

Ms. Kamal

This is Ms. Kamal's first year advising The Voice and she is not sure how she won the Irvington lottery because these kids are truly the best-kept secret of this school. She too, is a Swiftie, though a geriatric one.

Crystal Chen
Features/Graphics Editor

Crystal Chen

Crystal Chen (12) looks forward to spending her third year at The Voice designing colorful features layout with Megan. In her free time, she loves to play Identity V and Genshin Impact with her friends. She also likes to draw...

Tavas Phogat
Web Editor

Tavas Phogat

Tavas Phogat (11) is exhilarated to be the Web Editor this year for The Voice. Other than managing the website and the instagram, he enjoys reading books, playing video games, watching YouTube, and listening to all kinds of music.

Megan Ye
Features/Graphics Editor

Megan Ye

Megan (11) is one of the Features/Graphics editors this year and is ecstatic to spend another year working on The Voice! She spends most of her time doing her truckloads of homework, but she also enjoys cooking and will never...

Francis Luo
Broadcast Editor

Francis Luo

Francis Luo (11) is the Broadcast Editor for the Voicebox this year! He’s excited to start producing more exciting podcasts than ever before. Aside from journalism, Francis also enjoys doing miscellaneous music stuffs, writing...

Emily Shu
Editor in Chief/Entertainment Editor

Emily Shu

Emily Shu (12) is excited to be back for her third and last year of journalism as editor-in-chief. She’s excited to be Entertainment editor again after a positive experience last year. Despite the 30+ playlists she’s made...

Serena Luk
Editor in Chief/Student Life Editor

Serena Luk

Serena Luk (12) is looking forward to her second year in The Voice as Editor in Chief and Student Life Editor. As Student Life Editor she hopes to bring more attention to the diverse array of activities at Irvington. Outside of...

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