Meet the Executive Board

  • Oli Turner, General Manager

    Oli is a senior from Massachusetts studying English & Creative Writing. She's convinced something revolutionary is happening in the Atlanta underground scene. When she's not listening to Wednesday, Feeble Little Horse, or PJ Harvey, she's probably at a local DIY show.

  • Kiran Berger, Assistant General Manager

    Kiran is a senior from Brooklyn, NY studying Business and Spanish. Some of his hobbies, for better or for worse, include playing soccer, doomscrolling, daydreaming, and reading. He listens to pretty much anything, but current obsessions include Wilco, Niontay, Adrianne Lenker and billy woods.

  • Joy Ren, Media Operations Manager

    Joy is a senior from Lilburn, Georgia studying Psychology and Religion. She enjoys nearly every genre of music, but is presently very into dance/electronic and alternative rock. Her favorite pastimes include watching horror movies and reading Elif Batuman.

  • Abigail Duke, Campus Engagement Manager

    Abigail is a sophomore from Westchester, NY. She is always knitting something, reading so many poems, or sending snail mail to friends. She loves rummaging for new music, but her comfort artists at the moment are Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, and The Beatles.

  • Michael Dehn, Campus Engagement Manager

    Michael is thrilled to be joining WMRE exec. On top of hosting his late-night spectacular “dehn’s list,” he records music under the name mj dehn and his friends will often refuse him the aux, which he abuses to play indie rock and depressing folk music regardless of the vibes.

  • Carmen Maldonado, Community engagement Manager

    Carmen is a junior from Austin, Texas majoring in Business with a minor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her current obsessions include the band Die Spitz, iced chais, Russian shoegaze, convertible mittens, very very angry rap, and hammered silver jewelry.

  • Mya Green, Social media manager

    Mya is a junior History major from Houston, Texas. She loves watching movies, crafting, and collecting cds. Her taste in music is genre-less with current favorites being Outkast, Odie Leigh, and the Cocteau Twins.

  • Jen Kim, Social Media Manager

    Jen is a sophomore from San Francisco, California studying Human Health and Biology. She is a movie fanatic and is a huge nerd for Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and Dune. She listens and enjoys a large variety of music, but she's currently obsessed with Sade, berlioz, and The Cure!

  • Eleanor Byers, Zine Editor

    Eleanor is a senior studying Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Anthropology and working on an honors thesis about cyberfeminism. Eleanor grew up playing multiple instruments and going with her dad to record his radio show (Jazz Spectrum) for WGTE. Eleanor’s favorite genres are singer/songwriter, jazz, grunge, and (hyper)pop.

  • Gabriel Gaviño Ferrer, Assistant Chief Engineer

    Gabriel is a sophomore from Freeport, Maine. In his free time you’ll catch him playing basketball, eating fresh fruit in the sun, or mining through his parents’ CD collection. He loves everything from jazz and folk to reggae and jungle music.

  • Henrik Polatsek, Assistant Chief Engineer

    Henrik is a senior studying Art History and Creative Writing. He enjoys long walks on the beach, one man one act plays, and Twin Peaks. You can find him listening to everything from Mahler to Men I Trust, from Sibelius to Ski Aggu, or just maybe from Bernstein to Bladee.

  • Kaylah Holmes, Creative Board Leader

    Kaylah Holmes is a senior studying political science and business in CAS. Her favorite music genres are jazz and folk with her two favorite songs being Girl from ipanema and American pie! Kaylah’s hobbies are reading, traveling, acting, and playing guitar!

  • Anna Zhai, Creative Board Leader

    anna is a sophomore from atlanta studying business and film. she is a huge fan of jamming out with her friends, songs with sleazeball lyrics, going to local shows, and playing outside. she is half of a duo called teenage wastebasket on wmre, and will be attending the weezer blue album tour this year.

  • Rachel Kroger, Treasurer

    If Rachel’s life had a soundtrack, Dance Macabre would be on loop — for Saint Saëns really killed with that one (along with more modern artists such as the Neighbourhood, BTS, Billie Eilish, and Coldplay) When Rachel isn’t listening to music, she is completing her double major in International Studies and East Asian Studies, as well as playing Lacrosse, planning events with Hillel, and singing with Suri A Cappella.

  • Jackie Hampton, General Manager in Training

    Jackie is a Junior from Atlanta majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies and minoring in Architectural Studies. She loves listening to anything you can dance to, from Talking Heads to Solange. Find your new favorite song on her show, Superfood.

  • Carissa Park, Assistant general manager in training

    Carissa is a second year studying art history and chemistry. When she’s not engaging in grandmotherly activities she’s probably out exploring cafes with her friends! If you stalk her Spotify you’ll find mostly Indie with a dash of Dad Rock.