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Meet the HC Oxy Staff!

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Oxy chapter.

For our last Campus Celebrity profile, we’re doing a special edition – meet the awesome staff of Her Campus Oxy! We’ve brought you endless study breaks all year, and now you can meet the girls behind it all. 

Name: Madi Tsuji
Position: Campus Correspondent for Occidental College, Editor-in-Chief and President of HC Oxy
Year: 2014
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Res Hall: Erdman
Activities: Editor in Chief of Her Campus Oxy, Secretary of Alpha Lambda Phi Alpha, writer for the Admissions blog
Favorite place on campus: My bed.
Fun fact about me: My parents couldn’t think of a name for me when I was born, so the name on my original birth certificate says “Baby.” 
 

Name: Kate Bustamante
Position: Features Contributor
Year: Class of 2014, Sophomore
Hometown: Los Gatos, California
Residence Hall: Bell-Young
Activities at Oxy: Delta Omicron Tau, Occidental Women’s Rugby, The Occidental Weekly, A-Team, ITS, Her Campus Oxy
Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: The Green Bean
Fun Fact about Yourself: I write screenplays in my spare time.

Name: Serina Lawal
Position: Features Contributor
Year: 2015
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota!
Residence Hall: Stewie
Activities at Oxy: Her Campus Oxy, WYSE (Women and Youth Supporting Each Other)
Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: It’s a tie between my room/bed and the library (especially the CAE)
Fun Fact about Yourself: I have watched every episode of Criminal Minds at least four times.
 

Name: Emily Lewis
Position: Features Contributor
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: St. Charles, Illinois
Residence Hall:  Bell Young
Activities at Oxy:  I’m on the women’s frisbee team. I also work at the Cooler and Alumni Relations. Recently I helped start The Happy Tiger, a paper all about the joys of Occidental.
 Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: The library. I can’t say exactly where because it’s my favorite spot and I would rather not have someone occupy it :)
Fun Fact about Yourself:  I love the guitar. I’ve been playing acoustic for about 4 years
 

Name: Daphne Auza
Position: Contributing Writer
Year: 2015
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Residence Hall: Pauley
Activities at Oxy: Can California Immigration Semester be an activity, considering it’s occupied my whole life as a college student so far? Also, Spoken Word Club and Her Campus Oxy!
Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: The Green Bean is my happy place.
Fun Fact About Yourself: I have a slight obsession with film cameras.

Name: Kristin Feinberg
Position: Contributing Writer
Year: 2015
Hometown: Haverford, Pennsylvania
Residence Hall: Stewie
Activities at Oxy: Oxy Lax, Zumba, baking for my fellow Stewie residents ,singing and pretending I have dancing abilities with my roommate
Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: Stewie beach or the depths of the library.
Fun Fact about Yourself: I’ve often been described as an odd mixture of Jenna Marbles and Miranda Sings… also I’m part cat.

Name: Amber Thai
Position: Guest Contributor/Freshman Experience Blogger
Year: 2015
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Residence Hall: Newcomb
Activities at Oxy: Her Campus Oxy, Student Admissions Blogger, Hosting prospective students, Student Ambassador for Eagle Rock High School, Volunteering at the Huntington Memorial Hospital
 Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: The patches of green grass surrounding the quad/ The Green Bean
Fun Fact about Yourself: I like to cook with my mom because I think it’s important to learn as much as I can from her now.

Name: Jessica Robson
Position: Publicity Director
Year: Sophomore
Hometown: Sacramento, CA
Residence Hall: Haines
Activities at Oxy: Diving, Kappa Alpha Theta
Favorite Place on the Oxy Campus: My room I guess!
Fun Fact about Yourself: I met Lauren Conrad!

Hi! I'm a super busy sophomore at Occidental College. I'm a Spanish, Group Language (Chinese and Linguistics) double major.
Madi Tsuji is a former Campus Correspondent for Her Campus Occidental. She is originally from Seattle, WA and now lives in New York City, where she works in PR.