SENIOR STAFF
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NEWSPOSTERS
B R A N D I
Brandi was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but has been raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She has an amazing family with 2 older sisters, an adorable younger brother, and 8 nieces and nephews, who she spoils rotten. In 2004, Brandi graduated from UNLV with a bachelor of arts in Political Science, and in 2006 she completed her masters in secondary education with an emphasis in English. She currently teaches 7th grade in a middle school and is the head coach of the girls basketball team. In her spare time, Brandi enjoys traveling, reading, watching movies, four wheeling, photography, writing and spending time with her friends and family. Future plans including moving to Washington State to spend time writing and enjoying the rain!
J U L I A
Julia was born in the home country of vampires, Transylvania, but currently resides in England where she is in her final year at University studying for degree in Politics & International Relations. Working part time for a bank, she currently dreams of working in the European Union but would settle for any job that allows her to use her political knowledge and talent for research. When Julia is not reading, writing or thinking about Rob she likes to travel around Europe, visit historical castles and watch romantic movies.
J E N
In a nutshell, Jen has a fond appreciation for sarcasm and randomness with a side of “don’t take yourself too seriously”. A self-declared type A workaholic tech geek, let’s go with a smattering of random defining words/phrases: Vegetarian. Passionate cook. List lover. Problem solver. Runner (she is training for a marathon). DVR aficionado. Lover of foreign, dark, heavy or off-the-wall films. Musicphile. Some women buy shoes; Jen is in need of an intervention when it comes to music and books. She’s known to always have 2 iPods loaded with acoustic, indie, bluesy goodness with a killer running mix and a perpetual stack of 25 books in need of consumption.
PRESS MANAGER
J E N
Jen was born in New Castle, PA which is right outside of Pittsburgh. She has also lived in Texas, Virginia and North Carolina. She met her husband in college at NCSU and has been with him for ten years total. She adopted two kitties who are her children through and through and she can never imagine loving anything more. She went to college to originally be a marine biologist and has two years of that under her belt, but she ended up graduating in Business Management. She also has a year of culinary and entrepreneurship on her record and still managed to graduate in four years! She worked for IBM while in college and for two years afterwards. She has been at Cisco Systems for a little over five years and has just recently decided it is time for her to live her life the way she always wanted. She started taking acting classes and plans on moving to London to pursue the stage. She is lucky enough to have a husband who understands her need to expand her horizons and will follow whereever she needs to go. They have traveled to Europe three times and from the first trip they always knew they would live somewhere over there one day. Her favorite countries are Italy and Austria simply because of the people and the landscapes. She is open-minded about almost everything and will give anything two chances as she figures the first time shouldn’t always count. She treasures her friends and misses them intensely if they are separated. She is an athletic person and has played soccer, tennis and swimming. She also runs one to two half marathons a year.
MEDIA ASSISTANT
K R I S T I N E
Kristine is a passionate, ever changing person. From her time as a dance major at the University of Minnesota to achieving a Computer Science degree and working as a software developer. Meeting and marrying her dream guy in college and then moving to California for the next 7 years, Kristine became a drummer, beach bum, and mother. Most recently settling in the beautiful state of Colorado. She now is called “Mom” by three passionate, creative kids and has a long list of interesting things that keep her busy, such as Pattinson Online, being a leader of a M.O.P.S. group, a Secret Shopper, and volunteers at a Food Bank. She also serves on the Street Teams for To Write Love on Her Arms, Marcus Foster, and Bobby Long. She secretly hopes to become a chef someday.
QUOTE MANAGER
K I M
Kim was born and raised in a suburb of Chicago, and has lived there all her life. Currently in the last semester of college at a small university in Northwest Indiana, she’s studying math and secondary education to become a high school math teacher. While school and tutoring are her top priorities, she makes time for baking, watching movies, and keeping up with her favorite TV shows, one her all-time favorites being ‘The Office.’ After spending a semester in Cambridge, England, Kim became interested in travel and can’t wait for more opportunities to see the world after she graduates.
TRANSCRIBER
K A T I E
Katie was born in the United States not too long ago, hasn’t done anything of note since, and has no plans to do so in the future. In her free time she enjoys spelunking, criticizing modern art, visiting pre-modern Buddhist shrines, and playing the stock market. And being a smart ass. She is a student at a large public institution, and hopes to graduate before she has to sell off her non-vital organs for tuition money. Katie is sure that Rob is an interesting guy, but really just transcribes for job experience without pressure. In her future career she will do a lot of transcribing, so this is good practice!
SITE LIASONS
T A S H A
Tasha was born in Northern California in the gorgeous San Francisco Bay Area in 1976. She has lived in various places all along the west coast, spending most of her childhood in Washington state and Oregon. Eventually she wound up back in California, this time the Southern part, where she still resides and stirs up trouble. Tasha has always been a “school nerd” and was certain that she wanted to go to college to study to be a teacher. When the realization hit that she would basically be going to school for the rest of her life (first to study and then to teach others) she freaked out and decided to try something a little bit different. She always loved her art classes, so she decided to go to Brooks College in Long Beach, CA where she majored in Interior Design. After graduating from college Tasha kept busy by doing all kinds of entertainment and graphic design as well as doing freelance work for television and independent films. Her goal for the future is to do set design/dressing for epic fantasy films in the same vein as Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Neverending Story, etc. When she’s not working on becoming a super design pro or helping out with Pattinson Online, Tasha enjoys listening to music, convincing others to listen to music that she likes, going to concerts, partying like (and with) rock stars, reading, writing and geeking out on horror movies.
M A R I S A
Marisa is an administrative assistant from Anaheim, California. She loves Italian and Mexican food and spends her time watching her favorite movies, including the Harry Potter series.
M O L L Y
Molly is a college student from California. She inhales books on a regular basis – among her favorites are J.K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Chuck Palahniuk, Sara Douglass, and many more.
FORUM MODERATORS
B A R B A R A
Barbara was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Lane Tech High School, she went to Cortiva Institute of Massage Therapy to pursue her life long dream of becoming a Massage Therapist and just graduated this past June. Then she went on to take the National Certification Test to get her license and passed. Barbara plans on traveling to help people around the world learn more about the benefits of massage. She is currently working as a full-time assistant manager at f.y.e. until her license comes in the mail. When she isn’t working at work or on the forum, Barbara enjoys singing in the car, reading, walking and watching movies with her friends and family.
R E B E C C A
Rebecca was born and raised in small town Nebraska. She attends Doane College, a small liberal arts college in Nebraska, majoring in theatre and minoring in history. Currently, her life is consumed by Chi Delta Sorority, writing, and working part-time in retail. Rebecca enjoys listening to oldies music, the television show ‘Glee,’ and doing random arts and crafts projects. One day she hopes to move to the east coast and make a living doing what she loves.
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