Winter 2024, Fall 2023 and Winter 2023 Staff + Eli Loomis
Get to Know Us
The Planet Magazine is dedicated to environmental awareness and advocacy through responsible journalism.
The Planet Magazine is an entirely student-funded, written, edited and published environmental publication out of Western Washington University. Its mission is to provide resourceful and insightful community journalism while forming the next generation of environmental reporters and investigators.
Prioritizing diversity, inclusivity and community at the center of its discussions, The Planet aims to cover environmental issues, developments and justice, promoting community voices and ways to mitigate hazards, or forward solutions to public discourse through thoughtful, ethical and holistic journalism.
Fact-checked and held to very high editorial and ethical standards by the team of student editors, The Planet is the award-winning bridge between education, journalism, environmentalism and community. Our staff, reporters and photographers are dedicated to journalistic excellence, and have been since the launch of this newsroom in 1979.
Planet Advisor, Eli Loomis
The faces behind The Planet.
Winter ‘24 Staff
Our talented team of editors keeps our magazine running.
Editor-in-Chief: Riley Weeks — weeksr3@wwu.edu
Story Editors: Daria Walker — Julia Hawkins — Kylie Miller — Tarn Bregman
Photo Editor: Will Story
Public Editor: Hanna Rhody
Science Editor: Margaret Baumgartner
Social Media Editor: Hanna Rhody
Adviser: Eli Loomis — loomise@wwu.edu — (360) 650-2844
Fall ‘23 Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Riley Weeks — weeksr3@wwu.edu
Story Editors: Daria Walker — Julia Hawkins — Kylie Miller
Photo Editor: Will Story
Public Editor: Hanna Rhody
Science Editor: Margaret Baumgartner
Social Media Editor: Hanna Rhody
Adviser: Eli Loomis — loomise@wwu.edu — (360) 650-2844
Spring ‘23 Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Shirley Zhou — zhous3@wwu.edu
Managing Editor: Simone Higashi
Story Editors: Simone Higashi — Meghan Fenwick — Charles Rasco — Tarn Bregman
Photo Editor: Sydney Vasquez
Public Editor: Sophia Reynolds
Science Editor: Margaret Baumgartner
Multimedia Editor: Sof Dubois
Social Media Editor: Elijah Umar
Lead Designer: Kieran Bresnahan
Print Designers: Madeline Crowder — Camille Skiles
Adviser: Eli Loomis — loomise@wwu.edu — (360) 650-2844
Fall ‘22 Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Emma Bjornsrud — bjornse4@wwu.edu
Managing Editor: Cooper Castelle
Story Editors: Shirley Zhou — Meghan Fenwick — Sophia Reynolds — Cooper Castelle
Photo Editor: Sydney Vasquez
Public Editor: Joshua Solórzano
Science Editor: Margaret Baumgartner
Social Media Editor: Lily Webster
Illustrator: Al Short
Adviser: Eli Loomis — loomise@wwu.edu — (360) 650-2844
Editor-in-Chief: Clifford Heberden — heberdc@wwu.edu
Managing Editor: Shirley Zhou
Story Editors: Shirley Zhou — Meghan Fenwick — Charles Rasco — Simone Higashi
Photo Editor: Sydney Vasquez
Public Editor: Jacob O’Donnell
Science Editor: Margaret Baumgartner
Multimedia Editor: Sof Dubois
Social Media Editor: Lily Webster
Illustrator: Al Short
Web Designer: Kieran Bresnahan
Adviser: Eli Loomis — loomise@wwu.edu — (360) 650-2844
Winter ‘23 Staff
Spring ‘22
Planet Editors and Staff (Above)
Planet Story Editors and Editor-in-Chief (Left)