Ayumi Solorzano is a sophomore and this is her first year with the newspaper staff. Solorzano joined newspaper this year because she is an avid reader. “I really like stories, and publishing stories seems fun to do,” Solorzano said. When caught reading, you may find Solorzano with novels from the Harry Potter and Twilight series. To pass time, she also mentioned she enjoys going on long walks. Some other activities she enjoys doing are shopping at the mall, going to the beach, and eating out at restaurants. Solorzano also enjoys listening to music, especially Deftones. “I got into Deftones from my parents. I’m passionate about it and it fits into my personality,” Solorzano said. Solorzano was a cheerleader when she was in elementary school and before newspaper she was in band. When moving to Florida in middle school, Solorzano wanted to have art as her elective, but instead of being put into art, her school put her into band. After playing the clarinet and spending some time in the class, Solorzano took a liking to band and decided to take it for the remainder of her middle school years and for her freshmen year. Before Florida, Solorzano lived in Texas and visited Louisiana and New Mexico. She also goes to the northern part of Mexico to visit family regularly. Solorzano may appear to be very shy at first, but once she warms up to you, she is quite personable. “Once I feel comfortable I can be really loud and kind to people,” Solorzano said. (Profile by Alexis Logan)

Anika Sanka is a senior at Robinson High School and is the co-editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Knight Writers. This is her third year on staff. In her freshman year, even though she wanted to be on newspaper, she chose to do an AP elective. The following year, she joined the newspaper after being recommended to it by her cousin, Vikram Sambasivan, a former EIC of the Knight Writers. “I really wanted to do an elective that wasn’t an AP just to boost my GPA, but something I could actually do something in. I also wanted to improve my writing,” Sanka said. Being an EIC this year, Sanka has many goals for the newspaper as a whole. One of them is to earn an All-Florida award from the Florida Scholastic Press Association. “I think we are very capable of it. I’m honestly so happy I am EIC now,” Sanka said. “I now have the position and ability to implement things so we can be a really be a well-structured newspaper and win these awards.” Outside of newspaper, Sanka enjoys spending time playing sports. She is on the varsity track team, but she also likes to find time to play other sports as well. “In middle school, I did rowing for a while; that was fun, but I just wasn’t the best at it. I always found my way back to running. I love track. I love our community, and I love the team. I’ve also been dancing for a while. I like doing sports and activities like this just for fun,” Sanka said. When Sanka isn’t running or working, she enjoys spending free time watching 2000s movies with friends. In addition, Sanka doesn’t have a particular favorite music artist, but her favorite music genres are pop, rock and indie. “[My favorite movie is] ‘She’s the Man.’ It’s a 2000s movie, and it has Amanda Bines in it, and I just love her movies. The 2000s are just so good, and they are comfort movies,” she said. Being a senior, Sanka wants to go to Emory University in Atlanta or the University of Florida. She wants to study law or journalism “It [Emory University] is beautiful, it has nature, and cool extracurriculars. I want to go into law or journalism; something in the English and communications field. They have cool political science programs which I want to go into,” Sanka said. (Profile by Allison Bartlett)