Kristine Tuzon
“I want to become the storyteller whose words and imagination can influence and change the world.”- Kristine Tuzon
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Agnessa Kasumyan
After writing for her high school newspaper, Agnessa decided to pursue a career in journalism. During her junior year of high school, she broke a story regarding a racial profiling case at school. A year later, her follow-up story finished top five in the National Scholastic Press Association. She has been writing for El Vaquero for the past two semesters and is currently working toward her Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.
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Sal Polcino
Anthony ‘Sal’ Polcino is a professional jazz guitarist and published songwriter. He recently returned to school to study journalism, creative writing and communications. Polcino has been a copywriter for his small business for the last six years writing biographies, press releases and blogs for Jazz Punks LLC. Polcino, a first-year student at GCC, would like to combine his knowledge of jazz and writing to produce reviews and possibly a book in the near future.
Polcino comes from a long line of artists, musicians, writers, photographers, directors and producers.
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Monica Terada
This is Monica’s first semester as staff writer/cartoonist for the El Vaquero, she plans to transfer to a four year university and pursue a degree in film. Aside from her passion for writing, Monica loves making green juices in the morning and applying mud masks in her free time. Furthermore, quinoa and kale are very close to her heart. Although she is quite dissatisfied with her staff picture, she is pleased to be writing for the paper. She would like to dedicate all her articles and cartoons to a good friend in Brazil, Marcos.
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Stefan Abramian
Stefan Abramian was born in Poland. The past couple of years, Stefan has showed great interests in sports and in journalism. He is hoping to continue and purse his dream of being a sports journalist. Stefan plans to transfer to CSUN after his time at GCC
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Taline Markarian
My name is Taline Markarian and I was born in Montreal, Canada. I currently live in Glendale, California. This is my third year as an English major at Glendale Community College. I am 21 years old. I’ve been writing since I was 12 years old. I also wrote for my High School literary journal during my senior year.
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Dustin Rivera
Dustin Rivera was born and raised in Burbank, California. This is his first semester on the El Vaquero staff and his first time writing for any publication.
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Kelsey Anderson
This is Kelsey Anderson’s first semester on the El Vaquero staff. She will be transferring in the fall to San Francisco State University as a journalism major; emphasizing in print and minoring in graphic design.
She has written various articles for an Orange County based website called CareerConnections.me
In her spare time she enjoys running and long walks with her dog.
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Seneyda Rodriguez
Seneyda Rodriguez is a Los Angeles based photojournalist. Since graduating from The Art Institute of North Hollywood, her passion is to travel and tell stories through her photography.
As a staff photographer for El Vaquero she provides her talent and skills to improve the school newspaper. Her work is currently featured on http://killershrimp.com, http://d131a.com, and http://rascalla.com.
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Ksenia Rabinovich
Ksenia Rabinovich, born in Russia, is a journalist and musician who has versatile interests and skills. Since the young age of six years old she began her musical study, at the same age she entered the School of J.-I. Custo to learn French. Ksenia wrote for a few Saint- Petersburg magazines called City Collection, de Luxe, Fifth Wheel and a newspaper called Nevskoe Vremia, She also hosted TV show Mix-News. Currently Ksenia performs in two bands called Tainted Throne and Thirsty Ocean, her own project for which she writes music. She continues to write as a freelance journalist and wishes to develop her career as a writer in United States. She has a daughter, with whom she lives in Glendale.
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Evan Ramirez
My name is Evan Ramirez and the reason you’re reading this bio about me is because I love to write. I’m not quite sure where my affinity for writing came from, as none of my immediate family members have ever expressed interest in journalism or anything like it. What I adore about writing is that it allows me to combine multiple hobbies that I have into one device (that device being journalism). Those hobbies include film, television, video games and music. Having an outlet like journalism and writing in general allows me to analyze and explore different aspects of these mediums while expressing my feelings about them. If a review that I wrote for a film is read by someone and they find something that I said interesting that they didn’t pick up on when watching the movie, then I’ve done part of my job. As well as writing for El Vaquero, I also have a blog that I update regularly with movie reviews and articles about television and video games: http://evantvmoviegames.tumblr.com
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Eric Bourse
Eric Bourse was born and raised in Hollywood, California. This is Bourse’s fifth semester as a part of the El Vaquero staff and his second as editor-in-chief. He has covered a variety of topics for the paper including film reviews, news, features and sporting events.
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Angel Silva
Angel Silva is a returning writer for El Vaquero. He is a Mass Communications major and hopes to transfer to CSU Fullerton or Northridge. Angel is a technology and music enthusiast and likes to write in his spare time.
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Rebecca Krueger
I am Rebecca Krueger a 21-year-old native to Los Angeles majoring in journalism and this is my first semester on the paper. I hope to soon start pursuing my career goal as a journalist, while also being able to travel. My spare time is enveloped in soccer or work.
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Chris Rodd
Hi there, my name is Chris Rodd, I’m 23 years old, and I graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science. I was born in Los Angeles, but spent a good part of my life living abroad in Mexico, Jamaica, Panama, and France. I’m at GCC taking journalism classes with the goal of working for a major newspaper or TV network. Before this, I’ve worked at KCSB-FM in Santa Barbara, both in their newsroom and as the host of Political Asylum, a Sunday morning political talk show. I live for politics, so I hope to be showing that off a bit while writing for El Vaquero.
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Chantal Bevard
This is Chantal’s second semester on staff and is honored to be the managing editor of El Vaquero. She will be transferring to San Francisco State University in the fall and will continue with her journalism career by majoring in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts.
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John Ferrara
A once measly staff writer, I have risen to the ranks of El Vaquero sports editor. As sports editor I hope to deliver unbiased, entertaining news to the students of GCC. If you need to contact me you can find me in the winners circle of this year’s JACC competition.
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Jane Pojawa
Jane Pojawa is a Southern California-based print media editor/writer who also dabbles in web design. Her passion is historical research and has served as a secretary/archivist/historian for the Cabot’s Pueblo Museum board of directors 2008-2010), the communications director for the Friends of the Michael White Adobe (2009 – current) and the media and communications chair for the Morongo Basin Historical Society (2010-current). She writes a a blog for her husband, Raven Jake, and brews mead. She is a past editor-in-chief for El Vaquero 2005-2006, and Spring 2011 and has served as the editor-in-chief for the Insider, GCC’s student magazine, from 2008 – 2012.
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Jonathan Caballeros
My interest for journalism started in sixth grade. I had journalism for my elective in middle school, but in my middle school, electives were only eight weeks long.
After my first encounter, I finally had a chance to have journalism again, but this time, for the 32 week year in 8th grade. It was also the first time I actually saw my name in a newspaper, which even today still knocks my socks off.
After my 8th grade experience, I didn’t manage to have a journalism class until college.
This is now my 2nd semester in El Vaquero, and I love the business-like experience. It makes me feel like I am getting a leg up on something I want to do for years to come.
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Tex Wells
Tex Wells was born in a little town in the Texas panhandle. He moved to Los Angeles when he was a senior in high school. After a stint as a volunteer in the Army, he came back to LA where he worked on two Los Angeles Community College District newspapers. Tex has served El Vaquero as a photographer for several semesters.
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Richard Kontas
Former Editor-in-Chief and Action Sports Photographer.
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Corinna Scott
Corinna Scott is a self-proclaimed artist, writer, and journalist. She has studied journalism since 2000. Starting at East Los Angeles College and ending up at the award winning Glendale Community College’s El Vaquero. She has won an award for her newswriting, taken top place in a news poll for her Board of Trustees stories, and won an honorable mention for her cartoon. Corinna has studied animation arts while attending GCC from 1998 to 1999 whereupon she changed her mind on her major and entered the exciting world of Journalism complete with competing in state-wide competitions.
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Tatevik Manucharyan
Tatevik Manucharyan has always had a passion for writing. However, she started considering journalism as her future career only recently after realizing that it is a perfect combination of her favorite activities – travel, meeting people and having new experiences on a daily basis.
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Graig Agop
Graig Agop has been trying to find the doors to exit the Glendale Community
College campus since spring 2005. Rumor has it that he is getting close. This self-
proclaimed “Entertainment Terrorist” is a Communications major with a plan. Graig’s
contributions to El Vaquero and Insider Magazine have earned him eleven awards for
his work in Journalism at The Journalism Association of Community Colleges Southern California and state conferences.
Graig is aspiring comedic screenwriter with a passion for African-Americans and Chinese food. In 2010 Graig co-created Idol Magazine (Idolmagazineonline.com), Which featured a staff consisting from past and current El Vaquero staff members. Idol Magazine has been recognized and awarded for it’s questionably tasteless content and innovative design and is yet to be sued.
Graig also co-wrote His first screenplay Black Magic (BlackMagicMovie.com), A
comedy that follows Colin Laferty and his “Black Magic” Tabooky Tabucky Green III as they jump through different hurdles to avoid getting stuck in community college. Graig plans to shoot a short adaptation of this project with his brother and co-writer Hovsep this summer. Graig would like to apologize to all the professors who had the fortunate misfortune of having him in their class and would like me to tell you he never forgets anything.
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Ani Kashadoorian
‘La vie est ailleurs – Life is elsewhere’
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Jesse Morales
Jesse Morales, born and raised in Burbank, has been a student at GCC for two years. His personal and professional interests include photography, music, and film. This is his first semester working as a photographer for El Vaquero.
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Raul Espinosa
My name is Raul Espinosa, this is my second semester at Glendale and I’m studying for a certificate in Graphic Design. I am a visual artist / musician. I’m originally from Texas but I sold everything i owed and quit my awesome paying comfortable office job and moved to LA two years ago to follow my dreams of being an artist.
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Isiah Reyes
I’ve been a staff member of El Vaquero since 2008, shifting between writer and photographer. Overall, I’m very laid back and I get the job done.
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Agnes Constante
Agnes is a double-major in journalism and political science at Cal State Northridge. She has been on the staff of El Vaquero for several semesters and has enjoyed every minute of being part of Glendale College’s student newspaper. She aims to write stories that are relevant to readers.
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Marlon Miranda
I am a man of many parts, some are dark and some are geeky. In between lines of madness and sadness lays a humble man who wears his heart on his sleeve. A man who will bend but will never break, level-headed and spiritual by nature. A man who likes to test the boundaries of reality and of his mind. I have three beautiful children, a 12-year-old boy named Jacob, a 5-year-old named Anakin and a 9-month-old girl named Bella. I am a movie and sports fanatic. I used to love music but hated almost all music released in the last couple of years. My favorite team is the Steelers, I am borderline obsessed with Jim Morrison and Billy Corgan.
I am an open minded individual who is head strong and extremely opinionated. I am never shy and always ready to talk or report about anything or anyone. I am a proud Mayan, we are rarer than white lions! Born in South Central and grew up in Hollywood but now reside in Pasadena. I am as diverse as they come.
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Derek Stowe
Derek is from Carlisle, Mass. and has a family tree that spreads back to England. His Mayflower ancestor John Stowe, surveyor for King Charles I, arrived in 1624. As a high school senior at Phillips, Andover, Derek published his first short story about the intricate ecosystem surrounding a golf course. He earned his bachelor’s degree in French at UC Berkeley where he received praise for his final paper, “L’éruption de la Montagne Pelée, 1902.” At 29, he earned a songwriting certificate from Berklee College of Music, Boston and went on to travel the world including Europe, Canada, and the Caribbean islands. He spent two years in France and one in Mexico and before starting up a day-spa in Ashland, Ore. in the late 90s. After 9/11, he gave up the spa to move to Los Angeles. At 43, he earned a Media Arts certificate from Glendale Community College in Corporate Television.
Derek has spent his life specializing in self-expression. Throughout his career, his writing advice has been highly sought-after by students and business owners. He is currently working as a private writing consultant and gives occasional lessons in French, Spanish, Algebra, voice and piano. His uncanny sense of wit, keen ambition, and versatile vocabulary are what set Derek apart as a news writer. His ability to understand different cultures, languages, and personas have shaped him into the keen writer he is today. His news reporting aspirations include science lectures, green energy, web design, time-travel films, noir fiction, celebrity endurance stories, jazz music, and team sports.
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