Re:vision

Michelle Cheripka is a senior in Columbia College studying English. Michelle writes screenplays, plays, personal essays, articles, and poems. On campus, she's been involved with the film community and with The Blue and White. Most recently, she wrote the CUPAL Special Project "CENTO," a devised play composed entirely in quotes from other sources. She aspires to write and make films and plays.

Karisma Price is from New Orleans, LA. She is currently a junior at Columbia University double majoring in Creative Writing and Film Studies. She has performed her poetry at the New Orleans Museum of Art and is a former student intern at MSNBC. Karisma aspires to use performance poetry as a platform to educate middle and high school students on race and inequality. Her biggest accomplishment to date is making Barack Obama smile.

Eliza Callahan is a junior at Columbia College majoring in Visual Art and Creative Writing with a focus in poetry. She co-fronts the band Jack and Eliza and spent last summer touring both nationally and internationally. She is currently working on curating a contemporary ceramics show that will feature work by other members of Columbia’s visual arts community.

Pippa Biddle studies creative writing at Columbia. Her professional work tends to focus on volunteer travel (or voluntourism), with a special interest in issues of privilege and race as they play out through tourism in the developing world. She is the Vice President of the Board for Onwards. You can read her work and learn more at pippabiddle.com. Thanks again to Jack + Eliza for the music on this week’s episode and to The Blue and White for its support.

Natachi Mez is a first year at Columbia College who writes and performs slam poetry. She hopes to start an open mic series on campus and is delving into the art of music production so she can provide her own beats for her own bars.

Margo Jefferson is a professor in the writing department of the Columbia University School of the Arts. She won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and was a staff writer for The New York Times and Newsweek. Her reviews and essays have appeared in New York Magazine, The New Republic, Vogue, Harper's, and many other publications. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation/Theater Communications Group grant. She has also written and performed two theater pieces at The Cherry Lane Theatre and The Culture Project. She is the author of "On Michael Jackson" and her memoir, "Negroland," was published this September by Pantheon.

Erica Getto is an American Studies major at Columbia who studies pop culture through a political lens. She is the former station manager of WKCR FM-NY and a writer for Chowdah Sketch comedy. She is an aspiring television writer. Follow her on twitter @egetto, and check out her website, http://ericagetto.com/.

Ingrid Nelson studies creative writing at Columbia. Her fiction has previously been published in Slice Magazine. She loves to laugh and hopes one day to make a billion dollars. Please follow her on Twitter at @ingridabyss please, please, oh god, please.

Torsten Odland is a senior at Columbia studying Philosophy and Creative Writing. In 2014, he was the editor in chief of The Blue and White, a magazine that, over the last three years, has published many of his stories, poems, translations, and essays. He continues to write and perform for Chowdah Sketch Comedy.

Alejandra Oliva is a sociology and non-fiction creative writing major at Columbia University. Her writing is ideally read by sad and sleepy people. Check her out on Twitter at @ourladyofletter.

Serena Solin is currently a junior in Columbia College double majoring in English and Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry. Her work has been published in TheNewerYork, The Columbia Review, Columbia New Poetry, The Eye, The Blue and White, and is forthcoming in The Atlas Review.

Adina Applebaum is a Michigan native studying English and creative writing at Barnard. Her greatest accomplishments include learning all the lyrics to The Slim Shady LP before age 10 and being in the same elevator as Tim Gunn - twice.