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The Newspaper of Irvington High School

The Irvington Voice

The Newspaper of Irvington High School

The Irvington Voice

The Newspaper of Irvington High School

The Irvington Voice

2022-2023 Staff

Avril Brown
Staff Writer

Avril Brown

Avril Brown (11) is a first-year staff writer at The Voice. She is also an aspiring therapist for troubled teens and needs therapy herself for all the people who ask her for her advice then yeet it into the trash. Her hobbies ...

Mykal Mashack
Humor Editor

Mykal Mashack

Mykal (12) is happy to be back for a third year at The Voice, this time as Humor Editor. Off the record, she likes pretending to be productive, writing, and reading. If she’s not doing any of those things, she’s trying no...

Ananya Anand
Humans of Irvington High Editor

Ananya Anand

Ananya (12) is excited to be a Humans editor at the Irvington Voice this year! She joined the Voice to highlight Irvington’s beautiful, eccentric, and diverse community. In her free time, Ananya enjoys binging ATLA, writing po...

Ingrid Lu
Student Life Editor

Ingrid Lu

Ingrid Lu (12) is very excited for her second year at The Voice! Besides reading and writing, she likes watching shojou anime, hanging out with her beautiful, perfect, elegant cat Farrah, and drinking hot cocoa.   ...

Serena Luk
Staff Writer

Serena Luk

Serena Luk (11) is an aspiring staff writer for The Voice with an (alleged) “unhealthy addiction to ur mom jokes”. Serena is passionate about the student life on campus and sharing narratives behind what goes on in the Ir...

Misha Meswani
Staff Writer

Misha Meswani

Misha Meswani (11) is excited to be a first-year staff writer for The Voice. She joined The Voice to learn more about the behind-the-scenes of Journalism and to explore interesting people/events on campus. In her free time, sh...

Katelyn Shen
Staff Writer

Katelyn Shen

Katelyn Shen (11) is a first-year staff writer at The Voice and is excited to divulge the happenings at school. When she is not slaving away for school, she spends her time fussing over her cats and reading manga and manhwa....

Sampada Vaishampayan
Staff Writer

Sampada Vaishampayan

Sampada (10) is excited for her first year writing for the Voice. She looks forward to learning more about the Irvington community and getting to eat lots of free food. Her hobbies include lots of reading, baking (and eating)...

Sophie Mo
News Editor

Sophie Mo

Sophie Mo (12) is delighted to be a news editor for The Voice this year. Other than staring holes into a google doc never to write, she can be found scouring for new books and literary magazines to consume in her spare time....

Jessica Li
Staff Writer

Jessica Li

Jessica Li (11) is excited to be working as a staff writer! It’s her first year at The Voice, and she looks forward to sticking her nose into and writing about everything in Irvington. When not at school or participating in ...

Sadhana Chari
Editor in Chief/Student Life Editor

Sadhana Chari

Sadhana (12) is excited to be back for her third year at the Voice. She loves traveling, reading, and baking really badly. If you can't find her doing any of those things, she's probably aggressively playing 2048 - 3d version to re...

Tavas Phogat
Staff Writer

Tavas Phogat

Tavas Phogat (10) is ecstatic to be a first-year staff writer for The Voice.  In his leisure time, he enjoys reading books, learning about current events, playing video games and watching YouTube. If you don’t find him scro...

Arnav Dua
Staff Writer

Arnav Dua

Arnav Dua (10) is elated to serve as a first-year staff writer for The Voice. He likes to spend his time reading about current events, eating new foods, and talking to his friends. He joined The Voice to improve his journalistic ...

Francis Luo
Staff Writer

Francis Luo

Francis Luo (10) is a first-year staff writer at The Voice. Some of his hobbies include doing weird music things that no one ends up listening to and writing poetry and short stories. He joined The Voice to participate in writing...

Soham Sethi
Staff Writer

Soham Sethi

Soham Sethi (11) is a first-year staff writer for The Voice. He enjoys playing basketball, watching football, and walking his dog. He is also an avid procrastinator, Damian Lillard fan, and The Office fan. He is not superstiti...

Megan Ye
Staff Writer

Megan Ye

Megan Ye (10) is new to journalism this year and is overjoyed to join The Voice community. In her free time, she is most likely sleeping, and it is best not to wake her. She also enjoys cooking and spends too much time on ass...

Ojas Vatsyayan
Sports Editor

Ojas Vatsyayan

Ojas Vatsyayan(11) is a second-year staff member of the Voice, this time as Sports Editor. He loves reading, listening to music, and playing tennis. If he’s not doing those things, you’ll probably find him outside doing somethin...

Emily Shu
Entertainment Editor

Emily Shu

Emily Shu (11) is feeling strangely very optimistic about the current school year, despite being a junior now. This will be her second year with The Voice, and she’s super excited to be an Entertainment editor. In her free time, she e...

Mahika Modi
Web Editor

Mahika Modi

Mahika Modi (12) is excited to be this year’s web editor. In her free time, she likes to binge-watch random TV shows, hang out with her friends, and stay up till ungodly hours scrolling through tik tok. Her other hobbies incl...

Crystal Chen
Graphics Editor

Crystal Chen

Crystal Chen is excited to be start her second year at The Voice! This year, she looks forward to making graphics that are weirder than muscular wheels, Mona Phillips, and kids falling off of unsuspecting horses. In her free time,...

Anika Konkati
Broadcast Editor

Anika Konkati

Anika Konkati (12) is overjoyed to be Broadcast Manager for The Voice! She adores talking to people and learning about them. Ask her about video games, music, video game music, and her cute eraser collection....

Suyash Lakhmani
Editor in Chief/News Editor

Suyash Lakhmani

Suyash Lakhmani (12) is excited to be Editor-in-Chief for The Voice. He enjoys reading, watching unhealthy amounts of Youtube, and lifting. You can find him at Blaze Pizza or at Chipotle on the weekends....

Lynnette Chavez
Photo Editor

Lynnette Chavez

Lynnette (11) is a second-year photo editor for The Voice Vol. 31. Other than working on the paper, you can find her playing volleyball, baking, stargazing, or hanging with her friends. She is a Utah-born Bay Area transplant. ...

Urmi Mandal
Features Editor

Urmi Mandal

Urmi Mandal (12) is excited for her third and last year at the Irvington Voice. She's been the feature's editor for the past two years. In her free time, she enjoys reading historical fiction and watching period dramas. ...

Mr.Phillips
Advisor

Mr.Phillips

Mr. Phillips (old) can’t believe this is his sixteenth year as Advisor for the Voice.  He hasn’t gotten fired yet, but if the admin knew what he was doing, he would probably be transferred to a tutoring job at Steven Aca...

Aditya Bashyam
Entertainment Editor

Aditya Bashyam

Aditya Bashyam (12) is excited for his third year at the IHS Voice and his first year as Entertainment Editor. In his free time (whatever that is), he enjoys browsing on Wikipedia in an endless cycle, practicing Indian classi...

Rosalyn Weng
Opinions Editor

Rosalyn Weng

Rosalyn Weng (12) is the Opinions Editor for Volume 31 of the Voice. She’s passionate about sharing her love for writing, editing, and filmmaking. She's most excited about finally being able to brutally destroy J1 kids’ art...

Helen Yuan
Opinions Editor

Helen Yuan

Helen Yuan (12) is excited to edit for Opinions in her second year at The Voice. She’s looking forward to finishing her senior year and graduating. In her free time, Helen overanalyzes poetry and re-organizes her Google Dri...