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Dhakiya Knights

Hometown: Covington, Georgia

College: Timothy Dwight

Dhakiya is from Covington, Georgia. She likes long phone calls, debriefing long phone calls, and debriefing the debrief of the long phone call. Dhakiya also likes writing poetry (obviously), reading and playing ukulele. She’ll play Riptide if asked and embrace the basicness of it all.

Jean-Claude Pierre

Hometown: Jericho, New York

College: Berkeley

Jay is a poet hailing from Jericho, New York. He likes music, burgers, video games, and chasing stacks. He always writes his poems facing those he loves, so in a sense, all his poems are love poems. In his opinion, Lucki is the greatest writer of our generation and he aspires to write at his level. Life is real, love is real, he sincerely thanks his mom and dad and two sisters for everything.

Saron Ghaim

Hometown: Tampa, Florida

College: Timothy Dwight

Saron is from Tampa, FL, but carries big pride from her roots in East Africa. She likes to act unemployed, and her Florida man zodiac is alligator wrangling. Her main occupation is reapplying lip gloss and occasionally reading books. If you see her walking by and she doesn’t say hi, it’s because her earbuds are blasting afrobeats. She thinks she’s pretty funny, haha.

Elishevlyne Eliason

Hometown: Aurora, Colorado

College: Berkeley

Elishevlyne loves photography, reading the obscenities people write on the walls on the walls of Sterling, and biking down dangerously sloped hills. She is one of seven kids and would like the record to show that never once has she been beat when racing to be first for the shower.

Semilore Ola

Hometown: Orange County, California

College: Timothy Dwight

Semilore is from OC, but unfortunately is not one of its real housewives. She lurks on Twitter, celebrating magical realism, ’80s art, Noname, and the color yellow. She was a Swedish court jester in a past life, and also a flying bison, as well as a simple Scottish shepherd. She strives to become and feel everything at once.

Adell Ateshim

Hometown: Peoria, Arizona

College: Silliman

Adell Ateshim is from Peoria, AZ, and much to her surprise, on campus, Adell has become something of an Arizona nationalist. If you run into her on a cold, rainy, or windy day, she’ll pull up the weather app to show you (for the 1000th time) that “it’s 70 degrees in Arizona right now.” Adell is a former mediocre ballerina, with an absurd laugh, a wardrobe full of her mom’s clothes, and an unparalleled love for bread. She’s likely responsible for the consumption of half the Silliman dining hall’s baguettes.

Mandy Osuji

Hometown: Gurnee, Illinois

College: Pierson

Mandy Osuji is from the far north suburbs of Chicago (as in, nowhere near Chicago). She is a library enthusiast, has a recent obsession with pistachios, and on weekdays can be found listening to the same album on repeat while walking up and down Hillhouse. Her other hobbies include: discussing childhood, drinking milky tea, and making things from scratch.