David Allen
Music

Dave is a 2006 graduate of Bucknell University with a degree in English. As an undergraduate, he was Arts and Entertainment editor for The Bucknellian and a special assignment intern for The Daily Item in Sunbury, PA during summer 2005. His essay on chamber music appeared in the November/December issue of The Good Life: Central New York Magazine. He has written program notes for the Redhouse, recorded a podcast for PULSE and has been a guest-host on 'Fresh Ink,' a radio program on WCNY 91.3. : This semester, Dave will be interning for NewMusicBox, a music web-magazine based in New York City. http://www.newmusicbox.org

Jacqueline Brill
Visual Arts

Jacque Brill is working for Tandem Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky, a small PR firm specializing in non-profits. She works on a variety of clients, including the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, the Governor's Scholars Program and Gilda's Club of Louisville. Jacque still freelances for local publications and Museum News magazine.

Linda Buchwald
Music and Theater

Linda Buchwald is currently the assistant editor for Scholastic Math Magazine (www.scholastic.com/scholasticmath), a magazine for 6-9th graders that incorporates real life situations and popular culture to teach students about math. She has a passion for teen/tween culture as well as rock and roll music and musical theatre. While in the arts journalism program, she interned at Bentley Hall, publishers of Making Music Magazine (www.makingmusicmag.com ) and International Musician, and at gURL.com, a leading website for teenage girls. She also freelanced for the Syracuse New Times and Popmatters.com and contributed to the student-run magazine, Jerk. She currently contributes to the live music blog, www.52shows.com, and regularly updates her own blog, www.pataphysicalscience.blogspot.com. Although she currently lives in New York City, she'll always be a California girl at heart.

Dante A. Ciampaglia
Film

Dante A. Ciampaglia is a Pittsburgh native who earned a B.A. in film studies at the University of Pittsburgh and worked as a writer/editor at The Pitt News and Whirl Magazine. Dante is a regular contributor to Blogcritics Magazine, PopMatters, and Fulvue Drive-In, as well as Pittsburgh Metropolitan magazine. Dante is currently interning at MovieMaker magazine in New York City.

Blog: http://crazedheat.blogspot.com

Leah Hansen
Visual Arts Leah is an editorial assistant at TheNibble.com, a webzine about gourmet food. After graduation, she spent an amazing two weeks at the Haystack Arts Camp in Deer Isle, Maine and continued her internship with arts publication Zing magazine. She also worked as a freelance assistant for an InTouch Weekly reporter. Leah blogs at: http://www.animeintro.net/blog/index.php.
Links to the articles on the zing site:

http://www.zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/447
http://www.zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/435
http://www.zingmagazine.com/drupal/node/286

Susie Hume
Visual Arts & Film

Susie Hume received her B.A. in both film & media studies and photography at the University of Rochester. She graduated cum laude and with highest distinction and received the Roger Mertin Memorial Prize for Excellence in Photography and the Susan B. Anthony Award for Research in Women's Studies. After graduating, she worked for a commercial photography studio and for the digital division of Eastman Kodak Company.

Currently she is an intern with "City," Rochester's alt-weekly newspaper where she is writing weekly stories on pop culture and entertainment and helping write material for the paper's website redesign. Additionally, she is an integral part of the Newhouse Web Team where she acts as photographer, reporter and designer for the Newhouse website. She has exhibited her photography and installation artwork in museums and galleries in Rochester area and was recently invited to exhibit her work in Finland. In her spare time, she writes posts for her blog and works fervently on her novel, a tremendous endeavor she hopes to finish in the next year.

Raquel Laneri
Popular Culture & Fashion

Raquel Laneri holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. Her undergraduate fashion writing received the attention of Women's Wear Daily, and she was asked to participate in the fashion newspaper's annual college issue. Since then, she has written about fashion for Pittsburgh City Paper and The Post-Standard and writes book reviews for the website http://popmatters.com/. Raquel dreams of owning French New Wave film starlet Anna Karina's wardrobe and mastering the smoky eye. She currently interns at Surface magazine in Brooklyn, NY.

Blog: http://rlaneri.blogspot.com/

Erica Littlefield
Theater

Erica Littlefield received her B.A. in journalism, theatre and English with honors from Albertson College of Idaho. While there, she wrote for The Coyote, the student newspaper, and Quest, the Albertson alumni magazine, as well as working in the Office of Communications for three years. She was also very active in the theatre department as an actor, stage manager, and sound board operator. Last fall she interned in the media relations department at Syracuse Stage and produced a podcast for PULSE about Driving Miss Daisy. Erica currently interns at the Syracuse Post Standard.

Jenna M. McKnight
Architecture

Jenna M. McKnight is a digitally savvy journalist specializing in culture and architecture. She lives in Manhattan, where she works as a Web editor for two magazines, Architectural Record and GreenSource. Both recently won "Best Web Site" Neal Awards, regarded as the top accolade for trade publications.

Before starting her graduate studies at Newhouse, Jenna worked as a newspaper reporter and editor. Her stories have been featured in The New York Times, BusinessWeek.com, The Real Deal, Architects’ Journal, The Daily Record, The Herald Bulletin, among other titles. She also wrote, edited and designed the Goldring program’s first annual newsletter.

An Arizona native, Jenna graduated summa cum laude from Northern Arizona University in 2000 with a B.S. in environmental journalism and a minor in anthropology. She has backpacked in Alaska, studied Aboriginal culture in Australia, and interned at the EU in Brussels. In 2002, she designed and self-published a book of letters, artwork and photos entitled Through Our Eyes: A Tapestry of Words and Images in Response to September 11, which will be included in the World Trade Center Memorial Museum.

Manashi Mukherjee
Music, TV & Popular Culture

Manashi Mukherjee (AJ '07 - the best class!) has kept busy since graduation. She spent a month traveling around Canada and visiting family in Texas before landing in Washington, D.C. to do some consulting work at Associated Press Television. She worked with their broadcasting division to come up to speed on new technologies for newsgathering. In November, Manashi moved back to her hometown of Atlanta and worked as a media strategist for the public relations firm of Manning, Selvage and Lee. She worked with various account teams (clients included: Home Depot, Coca-Cola, Best Buy, W.R. Grace, and Siemens) to place stories with print and broadcast media, and she also did research on media trends. Additionally she has freelanced at CNN since June 2005, and she continues to do so now. Manashi's current projects include producing for CNN.com Live, working on technical production elements for CNN Newsgathering, and formulating marketing plans for Pure Volume, a music industry website. Her next endeavor will take her to South By Southwest, a music industry showcase in Austin, TX where she will be writing about the shows and helping to coordinate promotional events for PureVolume.com.

James Perry
Film

Originally from southeast Virginia, James earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the College of William and Mary. He made the Dean's List in the spring of 2004, was a member of the philosophy club, and played intramural sports.

Last fall, James's story about an art-for-rent program was published in "The Mix," a special section published in The Post-Standard. James is currently interning at the Syracuse New Times and has recently started an entertainment and Syracuse focused blog, which can be read at Last Exit Before the End.

Blog: http://lastexitbeforetheend.blogspot.com

Kathleen Poe
Music

Kathleen Poe has returned to her native Atlanta, where she currently works as communications coordinator for the Atlanta Development Authority. Beyond the nine-to-five, she freelances about people and the arts for local publications, sings with the Grammy-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and Chamber Chorus and holds down a gig as a staff singer at Trinity Presbyterian Church. In any remaining spare time she enjoys freeloading off of Jon Ross's plus-one press tickets to sweet concerts.

Jonathan Ross
Music

Jon Ross graduated from the University of Idaho with degrees in music and journalism. During his stay in scenic Moscow, Idaho, he edited the arts and opinion sections at the school's award-winning paper, The Argonaut, studied music with tenor saxophonist Jim Pisano, and spun jazz discs at the college radio station, KUOI. Since coming to New York, Jon has been writing nonstop. When he isn't penning classical reviews for The Post-Standard or composing long-form arts stories for NewTimes, he's searching for Syracuse's music scene.

Blog: http://noiseforest.blogspot.com

Suzanne Schaffer
Music

Suzanne Schaffer graduated with honors from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a degree in English minor in Spanish. During that time she spent a semester studying history and tango in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has worked as an assistant producer at Minnesota Public Radio for classical music programs, including Saint Paul Sunday. While at MPR, Suzanne wrote and produced a number of radio specials and holiday programs. Currently, she is interning at WAER in Syracuse, producing podcasts for PULSE and writing program notes for local chamber music concerts.

Robert Ward
Film

Bob Ward authors the "People of Interest" column for the monthly publication, Table-Hopping. He also wrote about a comedy improv group for the Daily Orange. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Kansas and wrote film reviews for The University Daily Kansan. He was a fixture at Lawrence's Liberty Hall Cinema. When the Des Moines native isn't extolling the virtues of black and white film, he is rocking on his saxophone or playing a round of golf. This semester Bob is interning at the Utica Observer-Dispatch covering community arts and entertainment.

Carl Yost
Architecture

Carl Yost entered the Goldring program after receiving an MFA in poetry from Penn State. While teaching freshman composition courses at the university, he wrote a graduate thesis that focused on how gender, race, religion, economics, and history influence experiences of art and urban spaces. As a Goldring student, he published a story about the Connective Corridor urban design project in Central New York Magazine; helped Johanna Keller, director of the Goldring program, edit a book on Nadia Boulanger; and interned at the Architect's Newspaper in New York City. He currently works as an Architectural Writer/Researcher for Rafael Vinoly Architects in New York City, where he writes and edits new business proposals and an upcoming series of monographs on the firm's recent projects.