Editorial Team
Our magazine is by students, for students. There have been many iterations of editorial teams throughout our existence as a press service, from desk jockeys in a Park Avenue cubicle to a digital age blogging cohort. Since 2018, New Voices has offered year-long, paid fellowships for Jewish college students, and in 2024 this fellowship program evolved to include a highly selective cohort of student journalists to serve as our inaugural Editorial Team. From Pasadena to Berlin, we are incredibly proud to host some of the brightest, most prolific emerging minds in Jewish media.
Our editors represent all facets of Jewish life on campus, and direct the flow of content that emerges on both our virtual and print platforms. They are responsible for hundreds of pitches that come to New Voices from young reporters across North America, they host and program local events on their campus, and have a free platform to hone their own writing practice through opinion pieces and personally directed investigations. New Voices fellows form a tight-knit community as progressive Jewish mediamakers, deepening their Jewish identities together, supporting one another personally and professionally, and getting to know each other through monthly virtual meetings and workshops with their cohort.
2024-2025 Editorial Team
Akiva Colin Haskins: Politics Editor
Akiva is a journalism and geography student from Los Angeles and the Politics Editor for New Voices Magazine. A convert to Judaism and a connoisseur of vegan borekas, Akiva also covers education in California for EdSource and serves as Managing Editor at The Pasadena City College Courier. Thoughts on politics, elections, or democracy? Pitch to Akiva today at politics@newvoices.org.
Rina Shamilov: Culture Editor
Rina Shamilov (she/they) is the arts and culture editor for New Voices' inaugural print issue. An MFA candidate at the University of Notre Dame, she is excited to join a team of other writers. Rina is a nonfiction editor at MayDay and an editorial fellow at the Notre Dame Review. Her work is either published or forthcoming in The Foundationalist, Club Plum Lit, Mulberry Literary, Pink Disco, Udolpho Magazine, Lilith, and New Voices. Thoughts on creative life? Have a review to pitch? Email Rina at culture@newvoices.org.
Lucas Tennen: Health Editor
Lucas is a writer and researcher based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, after his interest in health and religion brought him to study on Canada's East Coast. He now works as a research assistant, developing methods of cognitive rehabilitation for stroke victims. His current writing focuses on articulating a uniquely Jewish perspective on wellness. Thoughts on health, the body, or wellbeing? Send a pitch to Lucas at health@newvoices.org.
Evie Klein: Humor Editor
Granddaughter of a clown. Disciple of Professor Dan Ben-Amos. Jew from New Jersey. Evie Klein is the editor of humor who does not have IBS. Have a piece that makes you chuckle? Pitch to Evie at humor@newvoices.org.
Tyler Kliem: Design Editor
Tyler (he/him/his) is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a current U.S. Fulbright student at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, where he studies avant-garde Yiddish literature and art. A foremost Yiddishist, designer, and Jewish intellectual, Tyler has worked throughout college with the Yiddish Book Center and the Jewish Museum in New York on various creative and research projects related to labor rights, the Diaspora, Yiddish translation, and visual culture. He was previously the 2023–2024 Jewish Media Fellow with New Voices and Ayin Press. For artistic submissions and general design queries, email Tyler at design@newvoices.org
Ramona Saft: Archivist
Ramona Saft (she/her) recently graduated from The New School where she studied Literature and Jewish Culture and wrote her thesis on queer ancestry in the Book of Ruth. Ramona is currently working on her MS in Library and Information Science at Pratt Institute. This past year, she interned at Lilith Magazine and worked in the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn where she likes to quilt, explain literary theory to her unexpecting peers, and care for her extensive Calico Critter collection. For queries and archival requests, email Ramona at archives@newvoices.org.