2009 Brooklyn Ink Staff Contacts
Christopher Alessi covers Borough Park. He is a graduate of NYU with a degree in international affairs, and worked abroad for the past year reporting in Kenya, South Africa, and Australia.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: caa2135 [at] columbia.edu
Rob Anderson covers Greenpoint. He was the editor of CampusProgress.org at the Center for American Progress and has written for The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The American Prospect.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: rca2122 [at] columbia.edu
Terry Baynes covers Midwood. She previously worked as an editorial intern at Harvard Magazine and has published work in Cimarron Review.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: tlb2132 [at] columbia.edu
Stefanos Chen covers Sunset Park. He has been an editor for StormWire, an online news blog. His work has appeared in The New Agenda and Heeb.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: sdc2133 [at] columbia.edu
Leah Finnegan covers Flatbush. She has written for The Morning News, The Texas Observer, The Columbia Journalism Review and The Daily Texan.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: lkf2113 [at] columbia.edu
Meredith Kennedy covers Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. She has written for The Spectator at Hamilton College and The Examiner, a local newspaper covering Westchester County, NY.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: mmk2155 [at] columbia.edu
Nikhil Kumar K.S. covers Coney Island, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach. He recently graduated with a degree in humanities and law from India.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: nk2386 [at] columbia.edu
Miranda Lin covers Red Hook. She has worked as an editor at The Attache Journal in Toronto, Canada and a reporter for City Weekend Magazine in Beijing, China.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: mtl2136 [at] columbia.edu
Jack Mirkinson covers Crown Heights. He was a reporter and critic for the Yale Daily News and his work has also appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: jjm2191 [at] columbia.edu
Alessia Pirolo covers Bushwick. She worked as a court reporter for Corriere del Veneto/Corriere della Sera, and has written for websites in London and for Corriere della Sera and Il Gazzettino.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: ap2806 [at] columbia.edu
Sarah Portlock covers Prospect Heights. She has worked as a reporter for Newsday, The Brooklyn Paper and the Brooklyn Heights Blog, and was editor-in-chief of NYU’s daily student newspaper, Washington Square News.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: srp2142 [at] columbia.edu
Daniel Roberts covers Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend. He wrote a weekly op-ed column in college for The Middlebury Campus and has published work online for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and other web sites.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: dbr2116 [at] columbia.edu
Ishita Singh covers DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. She has worked at The Washington Post, espnthemag.com, The Baltimore Sun and Inside Lacrosse magazine.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: is2346 [at] columbia.edu
Derrick Taylor covers Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was the fashion editor of V Magazine, a student-run publication at UVA, and was also the fashion editor of The Light, a magazine that caters to the needs of the African American community in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Read his stories on the Ink. Email him: dbt2114 [at] columbia.edu
Katerina Valdivieso covers Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach. She has covered immigration and health issues and spent he past three years working as a producer at National Public Radio, where she helped cover the 2008 presidential election.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: kv2195 [at] columbia.edu
Mara Zepeda covers Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton and Dyker Heights. Her articles have appeared in The Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer and Boston Globe.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: msz2110 [at] columbia.edu
Nathania Zevi covers Williamsburg. In Italy she worked as a press officer for the Embassy of Israel to the Holy See and as a television reporter; her articles have appeared in Vanity Fair Italy, Corriere della Sera, A and Shalom.
Read her stories on the Ink. Email her: nz2169 [at] columbia.edu
