Ivy Olson is a Features Editor and a junior at McLean High School. This is her third year in Journalism. She enjoys playing field hockey along with listening to music and hanging out with her friends.
Graham Courey is sophomore at Mclean High School. This is his second year as a reporter in Journalism. In his free time, he enjoys playing and watching sports.
Madelyn is a senior at McLean and a fourth year journalism student. She is the sports editor for the Highlander newsmagazine. In her free time, she enjoys playing volleyball, reading, and hanging out with her younger siblings.
Isabella DiPatri is a senior at McLean High School. She is in her third year of journalism, working as one of the managing editors and social media managers. She loves playing on McLean's Varsity field hockey team, as well as...
Khushi Rana is a junior in her third year of journalism at McLean high school, but has been learning about it for five years as she began her journalism career through classes in middle school. Other than being a journalist, she...
Omar Kayali is a senior at McLean High School in his third year of journalism at McLean. He moved from Oklahoma to Virginia as a sophomore, which is when he joined the Highlander staff. Outside of journalism, he enjoys debate,...
Saehee Perez is a senior at McLean High School in Journalism 4. Apart from journalism, Saehee is interested in languages, politics, and art. Her favorite part of Journalism is the environment and room for flexibility.
Khushi Rana is a sophomore at McLean high school, and this is her second year in journalism. In addition to journalism, Khushi enjoys listening to music, hanging out with friends and family, and more.
Andrew Christofferson is a senior at McLean High School. This is his second year in journalism and he absolutely loves it. Andrew enjoys swimming, playing the piano, and hanging out with friends in his free time. He hopes to make...
Hanna Boughanem is a senior at McLean High School, and this is her second year in journalism. She is a swimmer and enjoys practicing with her teammates. She also loves dogs, music, and reading. In the future, she hopes to continue...
Sangmin Song is a senior at McLean High School, and it's his second year in Journalism. He is still learning about Journalism getting lots of help from his peers, and hopes to advance his career as a Journalist in the future.
Heran Essayas is a senior in her third year of journalism. In her free time, she loves spending time with her friends, playing field hockey, drinking lots of coffee and cooking.
Valerie Paredes is a Senior at McLean, this is her Third year in journalism. She spends most of time in color guard and looking for ways to make an impact on society. Her Favorite section is Features .
Polina Zubarev is a senior at McLean and in her third year of Journalism. She enjoys playing ice hockey, traveling, recording the podcast, and reading.
Jayne Ogilvie-Russell is a senior at McLean High School, and the head cartoonist for The Highlander magazine. Jayne has been working at their design skills in order to help contribute to the magazine in both art and page design....
Swetha Manimaran is a senior in her second year of journalism. She loves drinking large amounts of coffee, watching New Girl, taking pictures , and thrifting.
Elizabeth is a senior and has been on The Highlander staff since her first year as a freshman at McLean. She loves writing and reading, especially journalism articles and music reviews. She also writes poetry, short stories,...
Ariana Elahi is a junior at McLean high school and is currently taking Journalism 3. She enjoys being involved with different clubs and after-school activities as well as spending time with her friends and family.
Taylor Olson is a Designer and junior in her fourth year of journalism. She loves art, skating, watching movies, and her friends. Her favorite color is gray.
Arnav Gupta is a senior in Journalism 4. He likes playing basketball and enjoys hanging out with friends. He also likes playing video games and listening to music.
Shruthi Manimaran is a senior in her second year of journalism. She is a triplet and enjoys reading, 70s music, and binge watching Parks and Rec on Netflix.
Stella Keum is a Senior at McLean high school and this is her second year in journalism. She loves reading mystery novels and debating with her friends.
Christiana Ketema is a senior at McLean High School. She is in her third and final year of journalism, enjoying the time she has left. For fun, Christiana likes to hang out with friends, read books, and listen to music.
Akash Balenalli is a senior in Journalism 3. He enjoys photography, playing the cello, computer programming, drawing, reading and learning about the world. Akash is also a substitute section editor, designer and social media manager...
Taylor Staats is a sophmore and it is her second year in Journalism. She enjoys playing softball, traveling, listening to music and playing with her two dogs and chinchilla.
Nyla Marcott is a senior at McLean High School. This is her fourth year in Journalism. She enjoys traveling throughout the United States and abroad, vegetable gardening, and cooking foods from around the world. ...
Mackenzie Chen is a senior at McLean High School and works for The Highlander as an online managing editor for The Highlander website. She is in her third year of journalism, but she is continuing to enhance her skills as a rep...
Gianna Russo is a junior at McLean High School. This is her second year in Journalism and she loves it. Gianna enjoys playing soccer, participating in school activities, and spending time with her friends and family.
Sydney Gleason is a sophomore at McLean. She enjoys playing soccer and basketball with her teammates. Sydney's favorite class this year is journalism and she is excited to see the years to come with this class.
Makda Bekele is a senior at Mclean High school in her fourth year of journalism. She enjoys drawing, watching Teen Titans and CN shows, and being apart of The Highlander.
Max Irish is a Junior at McLean High School. He enjoys playing baseball and golf as well as participating in Best Buddies. He enjoys traveling all around the world, as well as spending time with his friends.
Dua Mobin is a senior and a third year journalism student. She enjoys public speaking, working with hospitals across the world to aid low-income populations to get access to medical treatment, and painting.
Marina Qu is a third-year journalist and one of the Editors-in-Chief of the The Highlander. A VHSL, CSPA and JEA award-winner, she enjoys writing about local news relevant to the community and collaborating with other reporter...
Aleena Gul is a junior, taking her third year of Journalism and is the News Editor for The Highlander magazine at McLean High School. She previously served as the Online News Editor for the online magazine and a Features Editor f...
Addie Brown is one of the Managing Editors of The Highlander in her fourth year of journalism. In her free time, she plays soccer competitively and loves to hang out with her friends.
Nicky is a senior at McLean High School. He is in his fourth year of journalism. Outside of school, Nicky loves playing and watching football, as well as eating food. He knows more about sports than you. Roll 'Ders.
Paarth Soni is a Senior at McLean High school who is now in his fourth year of journalism. Paarth has reported on over 25 articles for the online and paper magazine over his time on the Highlander staff. During his free time,...
Emily Friedman is an Opinions Editor and senior in her fourth year of journalism. She enjoys swimming, playing volleyball, and spending time with her friends and family.
This is Kaan Kocabal’s fourth year at Mclean high school and his fourth time taking journalism. He is a soccer player and likes to enjoy spending time with his friends.
Saisha Dani is a senior and is in her third year of Journalism at McLean High School. She has recently moved to the McLean community in 2018 and enjoys watching TV shows, reading and drinking bubble tea.
Noah Barnes is a senior in his fourth year of journalism at McLean High School, and an A&E editor for The Highlander. He plays on the Varsity soccer team, and enjoys sports of all kinds. Outside of school, he enjoys keeping upd...
Kyle Hawley is a senior at McLean High School. He is very passionate about American politics and will state his opinions on public policy and foreign affairs. When he is not writing an op-ed on a certain issue, Hawley will in...
