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The Gamut

The Gamut

The Gamut

2023-2024 Staff

Trisha Phan
Editor in Chief

Trisha Phan

Trisha Phan, a senior at Oxford, is this year's Editor in Chief of The Gamut. A staff member since freshman year, she served as the Lifestyle Editor for the 22-23 school year (her personal favorite section, as a lover of fun dict...

Lavanya Shyamsundar
Managing Editor

Lavanya Shyamsundar

Lavanya Shyamsundar will be serving the Gamut this year as Managing Editor. As a senior, she’s looking forward to completing college applications and most importantly enjoying her last year in high school. Lavanya first join...

Rowan Lee
Art/Layout Editor

Rowan Lee

Aside from finally graduating, Rowan Lee is looking most forward to serving as The Gamut’s Art and Layout Editor for their final year of high school. Their go-to hobbies are drawing and painting: an explanation as...

Theoden Melgar
Digital Content Editor

Theoden Melgar

Although his initial reason for joining the Gamut was because his friends were applying, veteran writer Theo Melgar is now serving his fourth and final year in the Gamut as Digital Content Editor for the 2023-2024 school year. ...

Gia Nguyen
Assistant Art/Layout/Web Content Editor

Gia Nguyen

Serving his second year, meet Gia Nguyen, the beloved assistant layout editor of The Gamut. Gia’s story with the newspaper began when he decided the structured format of OA’s art program wasn’t for him. Instead, he p...

Rachel Yoon
Opinion Editor

Rachel Yoon

Joining during the quarantine year after encouragement from her English teacher, Rachel Yoon, a junior at Oxford Academy, is currently in her third year as a Gamut staff member. Skilled in both the arts and writing, she has bo...

Michelle Choy
News Editor

Michelle Choy

Michelle Choy is serving her final year with Gamut as a News Editor and, despite being in her Senior year, still plans to work just as hard researching and communicating the facts. Some of her many hobbies include bike ri...

Zoharys Jaen
Lifestyle Editor

Zoharys Jaen

Dedicated, hardworking, aggressively extroverted, and perhaps optimistic to a detriment, Zoharys Jaen is in her Senior year at Oxford and has been a member of Gamut staff since the 9th grade. First joining due to encouragement f...

Haley Nguyen
Arts & Entertainment Editor

Haley Nguyen

Haley Nguyen is a M.I.D. (majestic, intelligent, and delicious) junior and is going into her third year of Gamut. For this 2023-2024 school year, she will be Gamut’s A&E editor as “it’s more interesting than the other sections...

Eshmom Haque
Sports Editor

Eshmom Haque

Outspoken writer and Gamut sports editor Eshmom Hacque is ready for his final year on the Gamut’s staff! As an experienced member of track, he is all about fitness, physical activity, and health. Inspiring stories of human phys...

Christian Festin
Senior Staff Writer

Christian Festin

Jimena Beltran
Staff Writer

Jimena Beltran

Junior Jimena Beltran is beginning her first year in Gamut as a staff writer. After going to GamSlam, The Gamut’s annual slam poetry event, Jimena was instantly enamored by it — inspiring her to join The Gamut to help ...

Nandita Bussa
Staff Writer

Nandita Bussa

Passionate about writing and journalism, Nandita grew up reading a variety of books that inspired her to have the dream to someday publish her own. As a sophomore staff writer this year, journalism is a way to express herself and...

Justin Le
Staff Writer

Justin Le

Justin Le is a current sophomore, beginning his second year on the Gamut staff. His interest in joining the staff came from the popular 2000s television show, Gilmore Girls, one of his personal favorite series. Since one of the...

Jasmine Nguyen
Staff Writer

Jasmine Nguyen

Jasmine Nguyen is one of the many new names on the Gamut staff list this year. Coming in as a sophomore, Jasmine is looking forward to writing in the Op-Ed and News sections, and she is excited to create new bonds within the ...

Tyler Nguyen
Staff Writer

Tyler Nguyen

Active zucchini bread hater and morning showerer, Tyler Nguyen is a sophomore writer on staff, excited to write and tackle journalism competitions. Despite his self-diagnosed declaration of being “obnoxiously loud,” Tyler i...

Nathan Perera
Staff Writer

Nathan Perera

Nathan Perera will be beginning his second year in Gamut as a writer. He enjoys writing A&E, alternating between scathing reviews to praiseful columns. Writing is at the heart of Nathan’s passion, having first joined th...

Miriam Santos
Staff Writer

Miriam Santos

Miriam first joined Gamut to explore journalism and experience the ‘behind-the-scenes’ of newspapers. She loves Mexican cuisine and is a fan of the music artist Slater. Her current go-to read is In the After by Demitria Lunet...

Mikaela Woo
Staff Writer

Mikaela Woo

Mikaela Woo is a sophomore staff writer who, after a little push from her English teacher, decided to pursue her passion for writing, joining the Gamut back in 2022. She hopes to inform readers through her research and report...

Millie Kwon
Staff Writer

Millie Kwon

Personally recruited, some may say, by Dr. Hind herself at Lexington Junior High School before her transfer to Oxford Academy in 8th grade, Millie Kwon is a new writer for the Gamut. As a freshman, Millie is looking forward to co...

Audrey Lee
Staff Writer

Audrey Lee

Audrey Lee is a freshman joining the Gamut as a staff writer. She joined Gamut with a love for literature, wanting to experience what it is like being a student journalist. She is also very excited about Gamut events like Secret ...

Celine Park
Staff Writer

Celine Park

Celine is a freshman staff writer and is eager to learn more about the world through participating in the Gamut. Encouraged by the Mrs. Galvan to join the paper, it’s no secret Celine is a terrific writer, and she even plans to pursue jou...

Athena Xing
Staff Writer

Athena Xing

Athena Xing, a current Oxford Academy freshman, is very excited to serve her first year on the Gamut as a staff writer. Passionate about sharing important ideas and learning about other people, Athena decided that she can lea...

Sydnee Cho
Staff Artist

Sydnee Cho

Sydnee Cho, a junior on the Gamut, is serving her third year as an illustrator. After two years of writing articles, Sydnee was able to experience her new passion of illustrating, causing her to change her role from a writer t...

Vanessa Marin-Ixlan
Staff Artist

Vanessa Marin-Ixlan

A new part of Gamut’s staff this year, Vanessa Marin-Ixlan is currently a junior that is excited to take on her role as an illustrator. Vanessa joined the school’s newspaper to experience a more professional work environm...

Danny Banuelos Chavez
Staff Artist

Danny Banuelos Chavez

Danny Banuelos Chavez, a current sophomore at Oxford Academy, is entering their first year at the Gamut as a photographer and illustrator. As a person who has always been keenly observant of others, they took an interest in photography...

Chris Phan
Staff Artist

Chris Phan

As a sophomore and first-year illustrator, Chris Phan joined the Gamut for the opportunity to improve and publish his digital artworks, meet new people of all grade levels, and have fun with his friends. This summer, Chris spe...

Isabella Sanchez
Staff Artist

Isabella Sanchez

Isabella Sanchez is a sophomore illustrator embarking on the beginning of her Gamut journey. An avid artist who enjoys drawing and animation, she’s excited to express writers’ ideas through art. Serving on the board of OA...

Eva Kim
Staff Artist

Eva Kim

Sophomore Eva Kim is just one of the many fresh faces on the Gamut staff this year, serving as an illustrator. Eva joined the Gamut in hopes of working with passionate, like-minded artists that share her love for drawing on b...

Dr. Hind
Advisor

Dr. Hind

The proud advisor of Gamut, Dr. Hind expresses the beauty of the world through stories and photography. From early writings on her grandma’s typewriter to conducting social science research to working as a journalist at C-SPAN, Dr...

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