Writers

	Tanya Braun, Writer Tanya Braun is a freshman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a member of the writing team at Passport. She has been to 14 different countries, hopes to spend her entire junior year abroad, and has a traveling gnome which she likes to take with her. Her interests include searching random Wikipedia articles, reading anything and everything, and eating mint chocolate chip ice cream.
	Michelle Choi, Writer Michelle is a sophomore studying Cultural Anthropology, with research interests in modern urban life, media culture, and the cyberspace, particularly in East Asia. She was raised in New Jersey, but she also identifies strongly with her birthplace South Korea. She enjoys traveling and learning new languages, so she plans on studying abroad as much as she can during her time at Duke. If she could be anything, she would love to be a travel writer or a food critic!
	Soo Chung, Writer Soo is a sophomore from South Korea, and she is a (prospective) Psychology and Asian and Middle East Studies major. She loves makeup, the 90s, shortbread cookies from Mad Hatter, sea otters, and waiting for connection flights in airports.
	Kimberly Goffe, Writer Kimberley (Kimi) Goffe is an itty bitty freshman who calls Kingston, Jamaica, her home but has (unfortunately) never met Bob Marley and (fortunately) never been on a bob-sled team. She is in love with Pablo Neruda, whom she is sure would return the feelings, if he were alive. Kimi’s closest friends are from Jamaica, South Korea, France, and Panama. Her future is undecided, as is her major, so she puts all her energy into enjoying the right-now.
	Daniel Luis Kamakura, Writer An aspiring author and Time Magazine Man of the Year (2006), Daniel Kamakura is a junior in Duke University’s Trinity School of Arts and Sciences. He is currently working on his BA in English, applying to medical school, and writing science fiction novels in his spare time. A dual citizen with Brasil and the U.S., Daniel is currently seeking additional citizenship in his family’s countries of origin: Italy and Japan. His most recent projects include founding a new religion and finding time to sleep.
	Bengisu Kusco, Writer Bengisu is a sophomore, majoring in Cultural Anthropology, and comes all the way from Turkey. She loves cooking (and eating!) Turkish food and enjoys all sorts of dancing very much, especially bellydancing.
	Christina Lee, Writer Christina is a sophomore from Cresskill, New Jersey. She is a Public Policy and Political Science double major, hopefully with an internationally-related concentration somewhere in one of those two. She absolutely loves anything to do with food, like reading food critic columns, watching the Food Network or Top Chef, and scoping out cool new restaurants.
	Kyu-min Lee, Editor Kyu-min is a junior who has lived in the states for the past eleven years, most of it down in Alabama. He experienced a rather unexpected culture shock when he returned to his home country, South Korea, for the first time in nine years two summers ago.
	Kara Li, Writer Profile in progress.
	Melissa Wiesner, Writer Melissa Wiesner (pronounced 'veesner' NOT 'wise-ner''!) is what you would call a third-culture kid: she was born and raised in the U.S., lived in Peru from age eleven to eighteen, and is 100% Colombian by heritage. If you want to talk languages, Melissa is the person to talk to, she loves practicing her Spanish, French, Italian, and even Turkish. Her own passport has taken her to study abroad in Switzerland, Turkey, France, and South Africa. At Duke she studies Public Policy, Cultural Anthropology, and the study of Ethics and enjoys debating, climbing, biking, and adding as much color to the world as possible. She heads new ethics magazine on campus, Encompass Magazine—check it out too!
	Edgar Mkrtchian, Writer Edgar is a 4th year student from Los Angeles, California. He is a Cultural Anthropology major with an emphasis on Latin American Studies. Edgar enjoys traveling around the world. This summer, he learned how to dance salsa and meringue amongst street protests in Caracas.
	Sarah Newman, Writer Sarah is a junior from Paris, France. She is a Psychology major and English minor. She loves to travel, and her favorite memory is reaching the peak of Mouth Kenya this past summer.
	Maddie Pongor, Writer Maddie is a sophomore from Boston and hopes to major in Public Policy and minor in a foreign language. She loves to travel with her family and Christian mission teams, particularly in Europe, South and Central America, and the Caribbean (always with several rolls of black and white film). This fall, she is in the "Humanitarian Challenges" Focus cluster at Duke because she is very interested in human rights and international relations.
	Rujia "Regina" Zhou, Writer Regina is sophomore from Beijing, China. She likes to travel and is excited about all the different cultures around the world. She went to elementary school in Dubai, high school in Beijing, and is now attending college at Duke. She has also been to a lot of places in Europe and Asia. Besides traveling, Regina loves Yoga and Pilates.
	Aaina Agarwal, Writer Aaina, Trinity '08, is from Arizona. She spent the fall semester of her junior year studying abroad in Delhi, India, and the spring on the Duke in Los Angeles film studies program. She has studied abroad in Prague and the south of France as well. She loves art museums, fashion, and great food. She has a Psychology major, and is now attending law school.
	Lihua Chen, Writer Lihua, Trinity '08, goes by either Lily or Lele. She is from Miami, Florida, and is currently attending law school. Her Duke studies focused on Political Science and Philosophy. She often has wanderlust, and after studying abroad in Paris and taking a semester off to work in Shanghai, she wishes she could just travel all the time.
	James Smyth, Writer James, Trinity '08, is a Philosophy major with Math and Spanish minors. He studied abroad during the first summer session and the fall semester of 2006; he was based in Madrid but traveled to almost every region of Spain. He is currently enrolled in first-year Chinese. He plans to live and work in Japan next year and eventually to write as a profession.