Staff
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Current Exec Board (2025-2026)
Kyra Lesmerises – President
Ben Auby – Vice President
Spencer Davis – Managing Editor, Webmaster
Corbin Diaz – Managing Editor, Treasurer
Natalie Roots-Nowakowski – Managing Editor
Diego Guerrero – Social Media Manager, Editor
Stephen Walsh – Social Media Manager
Alexa Murphy – Secretary, Programming Chair
Former Exec Board
Exec Board, 2024 -2025
Zoe Kulick – President
Ben Auby – Vice President, Treasurer
Spencer Davis – Managing Editor, Webmaster
Kyra Lesmerises – Managing Editor
Corbin Diaz – Social Media Manager
Natalie Roots-Nowakowski – Programming Chair, Secretary
Exec Board, 2023-2024
Allison Rauch – President
Izzy Killian – Vice President
Adam Leif – Managing Editor, Webmaster
Zoe Kulick – Managing Editor
Ryan Morton – Treasurer, Secretary
Spencer Davis – Webmaster
John Jameson – Social Media Manager
Henry Roach – Programming Chair
Exec Board, 2022-2023:
Xanthe Brown – President
Allison Rauch – Vice President
Henry Roach – Managing Editor
Izzy Killian – Managing Editor
Jack Lin – Treasurer
Alex Bruno – Secretary
Adam Leif – Webmaster
Shruti Rathnavel – Webmaster
Natalie Jarrett – Social Media Manager
Ilana Arougheti – Programming Chair
Exec Board, 2021-2022:
Shelby Schultz – President
Caleb Young – Vice-President, Webmaster
Antonio Campagna – Managing Editor
Xanthe Brown – Managing Editor
Alex Bruno – Treasurer
Chloe Sokol – Social Media Manager, Secretary
Chloe Bivona – Programming Chair
Exec Board, 2020-2021:
Ari Mostow – President
Shelby Schultz – Vice-President
Maggie Galloway – Managing Editor
Ally Hill – Managing Editor
Will Conboy – Treasurer
Ben Moskow – Social Media Manager
Ilana Arougheti – Secretary
Richard Godsel – Programming Chair
Alessandra Hernández – Assistant Editor
Antonio Campagna – Assistant Editor
Exec Board, 2019-2020:
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Flipside Hall of Fame
Class of 2012:
Andrew Gresik* – Founding Member and Secretary
Sam Gutelle* – Founding Member, Vice-President, and Co-President
Tom Schroeder – Managing Editor
Nick Zessis*† – Founder, President, and Co-President
Class of 2013:
Sam Block – Co-President, Director of Radio
Alex Finkelstein – Writer
Ben Miner – Treasurer
Katie Prentiss – Co-President, Director of Video
Dr. D.F. Xavier Rubino – Writer, Doctor, Hobbledehoy
Class of 2014:
Rachel Beal – Co-President, Secretary
Brian Earl – Managing Editor
Brian Lee – Director of Design
Clare Roth – Editor, Writer
Andrew Schneider – Co-President, Director of Marketing
Class of 2015:
Allison Ortega – President, Secretary
Class of 2016:
Adam Pecena – Multimedia Chair
Caroline Picard – President, Secretary, Social Media
Class of 2017:
Brian Capella – Managing Editor
Jordan Villanueva – President, Co-President, Vice President
Class of 2018:
Michael Campbell – founding Programming Chair, Assistant Editor
Sam Freedman – Treasurer, Assistant Editor
Lena Goren – Social Media Chair
Alex Kurland – Managing Editor, Assistant Editor
Michael Miller – Multimedia Chair, Assistant Editor
All-Time Writers and Contributors
Adam Adler
Sam Allnutt
Michael Anders
Chris Anderson
Nyle Arora
Julianna Astarita
Emilia Barrose
Cooper Barth
Rachel Beal
William Belcher
Ben Berkman
Josh Berry
Sam Block
Jeremy Bowen
Nicky Brailas
Josh Brechner
Jay Calhoun
Jing Cao
Brian Capella
Nate Carroll
Marco Cartolano
Ben Castleman
Elise Chagas
Alex Chudler
Matt Clarkston
Jacob Clinton
Michael Coe
Ben Connelly
Justin Connolly
Alex Dale
Tyler Daswick
Michael Davis
Matt Dealy
Bethany DeLong
Tyler Dillon
Chandler Dutton
Brian Earl
Ben Elkind
Justin Erb
James Fan
Matt Ferro
Chelsea Finger
Alex Finkelstein
Ike Frankel
Noah Franklin
Sam Freedman
Zach Galant
Steven Goldstein
Kirby Gong
Alex Gordon
Lena Goren
Andrew Gresik*
Meghan Gresk
Scott Grindy*
Michael Guenzl
Michael Guhin
Sam Gutelle*
Alex Hampl
Charlie Hansell
Kaitlin Hansen
Jordan Harrison
Louie Hayes
Sam Hazlett
Christian Hernandez
Richie Hoffman
Brad Horras
Laken Howard
Samuel Howes
Sarah Jane Inwards
Chase Jackson
Michael Janak
Arnold Johnsen
Laura Jok
Michael Kanter
Jeremy Keeshin‡
Katherine Kelly
Casey Kendall
Eric Kennedy
Alec Khan
Ruchir Khazanchi
John Klafta
Max Kliman
Jacob Kogan
Jesse Kramer
Alex Kurland
Rosie Lai
Amanda Lapid
Nancy Le
Brian Lee
Min Lee
Rachel Leshin
Dan Lesser
Leeks Lim
Peter Luckow
Stef Luthin
Colton Maddox
Jackie Mahoney
Mike Mallazzo
Alejandro Marichal
Carolyn Mazanec
Laura McGehee
Tara McManus
“Oliver Meeks”
Varun Mehta
Dean Meisel
Matt Middleton
Mariah Miller
Ben Miner
Joe Misulonas
Alyssa Morvis
Corey Moss
Ari Mostow
Nathan Mostow
Carmel Mu
Vivian Mu
Jesse Mumm
Susie Neilson
Allison Ortega
Paige Ottmar
Charlotte Pattison
Zoe Pearl
Adam Pecena
Lucas Pettinato
Caroline Picard
Katie Prentiss
Janesh Rahlan
Noah Rawitz
Joshua Razo
Gideon Resnick
Matthew Rizman
Nina Rogers
Clare Roth
Dr. D.F. Xavier Rubino, Chief Marketing Plenipotentiary and Head Hobbledehoy
Andres Salmeron
Ben Sanders
Sam Saulsbury
Jordan Scherer
Andrew Schneider
Lauren Schneider
Tom Schroeder
Anant Shah
Alex Shapiro
Tom Shimandle
Drake Sieber
Zach Silva
Amanda Simmons
Katie Singh
Wilson Smith
Kevin Soter
Dan Stevens
Chase Sund
Greg Swiatek
Vicky Szuflita
Jenna Troum
JT Tsuchiya
Bethany Tuten
Jared Tyler
Eric Vanchieri
Jordan Villanueva
Claire Waluch
Michael Wang
Dan Weinberg
Brad Weinberger*
Laura Whittenburg
Zach Wichter
Emily Wickwire
Alex Wilcox
Steve Won
Killian Young
Andrew Zessar
Nick Zessis*†
† Denotes Northwestern Flipside Founder
‡ Denotes Flipside News Founder
* Denotes Member of Original Five