Meet the Executive Board
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Oli Turner, General Manager
Oli is a senior from Massachusetts studying English & Creative Writing. She's convinced something revolutionary is happening in the Atlanta underground scene. When she's not listening to Wednesday, Feeble Little Horse, or PJ Harvey, she's probably at a local DIY show.
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Kiran Berger, Assistant General Manager
Kiran is a senior from Brooklyn, NY studying Business and Spanish. Some of his hobbies, for better or for worse, include playing soccer, doomscrolling, daydreaming, and reading. He listens to pretty much anything, but current obsessions include Wilco, Niontay, Adrianne Lenker and billy woods.
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Joy Ren, Media Operations Manager
Joy is a senior from Lilburn, Georgia studying Psychology and Religion. She enjoys nearly every genre of music, but is presently very into dance/electronic and alternative rock. Her favorite pastimes include watching horror movies and reading Elif Batuman.
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Michael Dehn, Campus Engagement Manager
Michael is thrilled to be joining WMRE exec. On top of hosting his late-night spectacular “dehn’s list,” he records music under the name mj dehn and his friends will often refuse him the aux, which he abuses to play indie rock and depressing folk music regardless of the vibes.
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Shadeh Okoudjou, Campus Engagement Manager
Shadeh is a junior majoring in Neurobiology and Behavioral Sciences from Boston, Massachusetts. She works to try and expand her music taste and is always always always down to see live performances. Some of her current favorites are Dominic Fike, Charli XCX,, Denzel Curry, JPEGMAFIA, and PinkPanthress.
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Gabe Marrero, Community Engagement Manager
Gabe is a Psychology and Philosophy double major from the Bronx, New York, and on his free time you can probably find him playing ball or cheering on his beloved Knicks. Despite being a former SoundCloud rapper, he's swapped out the mic for a pair of headphones and his favorite artists, such as Amy Winehouse, Brent Faiyaz and Drake, span a wide variety of genres.
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Jen Kim, Social Media Manager
Jen is a sophomore from San Francisco, California studying Human Health. She is a movie fanatic and is a huge nerd for Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Dune. She listens and enjoys a large variety of music, but she's currently obsessed with Sade, berlioz, and Radiohead!
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Carissa Park, Social Media Manager
Carissa is a second year studying Art History. When she’s not engaging in grandmotherly activities she’s probably out exploring cafes with her friends! If you stalk her Spotify you’ll find mostly Indie with a dash of Dad Rock.
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Eleanor Byers, Zine Editor
Eleanor is a senior studying Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and working on an honors thesis about cyberfeminism. Eleanor grew up playing multiple instruments and going with her dad to record his radio show (Jazz Spectrum) for WGTE. Eleanor’s favorite genres are singer/songwriter, jazz, grunge, and (hyper)pop.
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Gabriel Gaviño Ferrer, Assistant Chief Engineer
Gabriel is a sophomore from Freeport, Maine. In his free time you’ll catch him playing basketball, eating fresh fruit in the sun, or mining through his parents’ CD collection. He loves everything from jazz and folk to reggae and jungle music.
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Henrik Polatsek, Assistant Chief Engineer
Henrik is a senior studying Art History and Creative Writing. He enjoys long walks on the beach, one man one act plays, and Twin Peaks. You can find him listening to everything from Mahler to Men I Trust, from Sibelius to Ski Aggu, or just maybe from Bernstein to Bladee.
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Kaylah Holmes, Creative Board Leader
Kaylah Holmes is a senior studying political science and business in CAS. Her favorite music genres are jazz and folk with her two favorite songs being Girl from ipanema and American pie! Kaylah’s hobbies are reading, traveling, acting, and playing guitar!
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Anna Zhai, Creative Board Leader
anna is a sophomore from atlanta studying business and film. she is a huge fan of jamming out with her friends, songs with sleazeball lyrics, going to local shows, and playing outside. she is half of a duo called teenage wastebasket on wmre, and will be attending the weezer blue album tour this year.
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Rachel Kroger, Treasurer
If Rachel’s life had a soundtrack, Dance Macabre would be on loop — for Saint Saëns really killed with that one (along with more modern artists such as the Neighbourhood, BTS, Billie Eilish, and Coldplay) When Rachel isn’t listening to music, she is completing her double major in International Studies and East Asian Studies, as well as playing Lacrosse, planning events with Hillel, and singing with Suri A Cappella.