Limestone Post Contributors

Aaron B. Cohen

Aaron was VP of Communications at the Jewish Federation of Chicago and Executive Editor of Jewish Chicago magazine. Past president of American Jewish Press Association, his work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, NPR, and other outlets.

Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship Students

Students in Rachel Bahr's class at Monroe County Community School Corporation's Academy of Science and Entrepreneurship explore multiple pathways to enrich their knowledge and apply learning.

Adam Reynolds

Adam Reynolds is a documentary photographer from Bloomington, now in Indianapolis. He's a photographic educator with an MFA from IU. His first photo book, Architecture of an Existential Threat, was published in 2017.

Alexandria Hollett

Alexandria Hollett is a doctoral candidate at IU in Curriculum and Instruction and Gender Studies. Formerly a Chicago public school teacher and union delegate, she's a Faculty Fellow at IU. She helped create Inaugurate the Revolution in 2016.

Allison Yates

Allison graduated from IU in 2014 with degrees in International Studies, Spanish, and Near Eastern Languages. She's worked and traveled in Europe, Asia, and Australia. She writes about travel, social justice, and community.

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amanda Borschel-Dan is The Times of Israel's Deputy Editor. She attended IU in the 1990s as a Jewish Studies major and work-study student in the program led by Professor Alvin Rosenfeld. She lives near Jerusalem.

Amanda Boyer

Amanda Boyer moved to Bloomington for undergrad in 2010 and returned after grad school. In 2018, she started Wholehearted Nutrition as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist on her own terms. She helps people with their relationship with food and body.

Amelia Brown

Amelia Brown graduated from IU in 2012 with a degree in apparel merchandising and minors in business and creative writing. Her writing has been featured on Introvert, Dear for articles focusing on being introverted and an INFJ personality type.

Andrew Cary

Andrew is a recent IU history graduate who enjoys reading nonfiction, spending time with animals, and eating food. Born in Bloomington, he grew up in Virginia. He works at the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point.

Angela Hawkins

Angela Hawkins is a Midwesterner with a New Yorker's pace. She credits IU with teaching her to create quality stories. She visualizes stories like movie storyboards and focuses on finding an interesting element to leave readers in awe.

Ann Georgescu

Ann Georgescu has spent three decades exploring journalism, commercial art, yoga, and hairdressing. She has a feel for the unusual angle in everyday events and loves sharing her impressions through written and visual storytelling.

Anne Kibbler

Anne Kibbler retired in 2022 as director of communications at IU's Media School after 30+ years in news, including 10 years at The Herald-Times and five years as editor of Indiana Environmental Reporter. She's assistant editor of Limestone Post.

Anne Laker

From 2016 to 2019, Anne Laker was director of communications at the Indiana Forest Alliance. She earned degrees from Loyola Chicago and IUPUI and hosts a movie review radio show on Indianapolis station WQRT 99.1.

April McKay

April makes a living as a seasonal bat biologist. When she isn’t chasing bats, she’s based out of Bloomington, Indiana, where she can be found pursuing good food and good times with her partner and their menagerie of animals. (Pictured with Pacho.)

Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism

The nonprofit, nonpartisan Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at IU conducts multimedia investigative reporting on issues important to Indiana residents. Kathleen M. Johnston is director.

Becky Hill

Benjamin Beane

Benjamin Beane graduated from IU in 2015 with a journalism degree. He hopes to write a horror screenplay. He spends free time playing recreational sports, watching movies, and hiking.

Beth Edwards

Beth Edwards (1978-2023) was a writer and producer for the Indiana Environmental Reporter from 2018 until 2023. Her award-winning work won first place for environmental reporting. Her documentary about coal ash was screened at film festivals.

Brian Hartz

Brian Hartz is a freelance writer and editor in St. Petersburg, Florida. He earned an MS in journalism from IU and contributes to Indiana University Alumni Magazine, IU Simon Cancer Center, and Southern Boating magazine.

C. D. Culper

Brandon Culper is an IU journalism graduate working in digital media and communications. He grew up in Bloomington and enjoys Hoosier basketball, craft beer, hiking, and good conversations over bourbon.

Carol Johnson

Carol Johnson is editor of Southern Indiana Business Report (SIBR), an online magazine covering business and economic development in eight southern Indiana counties. SIBR is based in Lawrence County at SouthernIndianaBusinessReport.com.

Charlotte Zietlow

Chaz Mottinger

Chaz Mottinger is a portrait, event, and life photographer. She freelances in addition to working for Pictura Gallery and Indiana University Communications. You can find more of Chaz's work on her website.

Chris Green

Christopher Green is a filmmaker, engineer, and co-founder of Rogue Ruckus, providing video production and marketing services. He was born in Ontario, Canada, attended school in Ohio, and lives in Bloomington.

Chris Sims

Chris Sims is a comic writer and artist from Columbus, Indiana. As a recent M.A. graduate, he spends much of his time writing articles and graphic novels.

Christina Avery

Christina Avery is an IU journalism student and enterprise reporter at the Indiana Daily Student covering social issues, government, and culture. She's an investigative intern at the Arnolt Center and previously reported for Chalkbeat Indiana.

Christine Brackenhoff

Christine Brackenhoff is a nurse and freelance writer. She formerly served as music director at WFHB Community Radio and worked as a publicist. She's keenly interested in healthcare, music, and Bloomington's comedy scene.

Claude Cookman

Claude Cookman had an 18-year journalism career before earning an MFA and Ph.D. from Princeton. He taught visual communications at IU for 24 years. He authored four books on photojournalism and served on the Kinsey Institute board.

Dam Hee Kim

Dam Hee Kim is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on the social, political and economic implications of individuals' engagement with news and entertainment in evolving media.

Daniel Bingham

Daniel Bingham is a software engineer, permaculturist, and community organizer. He grew up in Bloomington, graduated from Skidmore College with degrees in physics and computer science, and organizes around cooperatives and sustainability.

Dason Anderson

Dason Anderson is a writer from southern Indiana. He's a big fan of Lord of the Rings and the Sunday comics section. “Life’s a garden. Dig it.”

Dave Torneo

Dave Torneo is a founding editor of Ledge Mule Press and coordinates its Poetry Project Reading Series. His poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, The Café Review, and Mudfish. He's been a Bloomington resident since 1996.

Debora Shaw

Debora Shaw is spokesperson for the League of Women Voters–Bloomington Monroe County and co-chair of its Voter Service Committee. She is a retired IU faculty member who previously worked for Indiana State Library and University of Illinois.

Deborah Myerson

Deborah Myerson has lived in Bloomington's Elm Heights neighborhood for 18 years. She's a housing and community development specialist, founder of Myerson Consulting, and a co-organizer with Neighbors United Bloomington/Monroe County.

Diane Walker

Diane is a lawyer with Pro Bono Indiana. She has a B.A. in Journalism from IU and a minor in Business. Diane grew up on a dairy farm in central Indiana and can still identify several different kinds of cows.

Doug Storm

Doug Storm produces and hosts WFHB's Interchange, an interview program airing Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. He works for Project MUSE. His poetry book The Gulf of Folly was published by Black Bomb Books in 2016.

Dr. Lee Rafuse Haines

Dr. Rafuse Haines is an Associate Research Professor of Molecular Parasitology and Medical Entomology at Notre Dame. She studies diseases spread by arthropods, focusing on insects, their microbiota, and transmitted pathogens.

Duane Busick

Duane Busick is a video storyteller and three-time recipient of Individual Artist Grants from the Indiana Arts Commission. His projects use oral history to tell community event histories. In 2016, he became a BUSK Ambassador advocating for buskers.

Earth Eats

Earth Eats is a radio show, podcast, and website from WFIU-Bloomington about local food and sustainable agriculture.

Eastina Marian Boimadi Taylor

Eastina Marian Boimadi Taylor, from Freetown, Sierra Leone, has nine years' media experience. At BBC Media Action-Sierra Leone, she produces radio programs on youth issues and malaria. She founded Shaping Young Minds Initiative Academy.

Elijah Pouges

Elijah Pouges is a writer, musician, and journalism student at IU. His interests include interactions of sound and film, media theory, and hip-hop and material culture. When not writing, he's hunched over a computer working on beats.

Elizabeth Keating

Elizabeth Keating is a linguistic anthropology professor at UT Austin studying culture and communication. Her latest book is The Essential Questions: Interview Your Family to Uncover Stories and Bridge Generations.

Ellen Wu

Ellen Wu, Ph.D., is associate professor of history and director of Asian American Studies at IU-Bloomington. Her research focuses on race, immigration, and U.S.-Asia/Pacific relations. She serves on the Indiana Advisory Committee on Civil Rights.

Emily Williams

Emily Williams is pursuing a master's in Arts Administration at IU. Born in central Indiana, she earned BAs in Art History and Arts Management from University of North Texas. Find her at the Eskenazi Museum or McCalla galleries.

Emily Winters

Enrique Sáenz

Enrique Sáenz is an Indianapolis journalist whose work for Indiana Environmental Reporter has appeared statewide. He began as a Marine Corps combat correspondent and later covered crime and border issues for KRGV in Texas.

Erin Hollinden

Erin Hollinden is a freelance writer, gardener, world traveler, musician, food banker, and poet. She lives in the Hoosier National Forest. Her writing has appeared in NUVO, The Ryder, Bloom Magazine, and Songlines.

Erin Martoglio

Erin Martoglio is an attorney at Freitag & Martoglio, LLC in Bloomington. When not practicing law she enjoys running, gardening, cooking, and writing.

Eryn Wisler

Eryn Wisler is a Bloomington writer and mom of two who grew up in San Diego. She loves dystopian young adult novels, bold red wine, and British crime dramas. Follow her on Twitter @erynann and blog sprinkledpepper.com.

Eszi Waters

Eszi is a longtime writer who has worked at several Bloomington nonprofits. They currently work at Catholic Charities Bloomington, writing grants and providing case management. They spend free time reading, writing poetry, and painting.

Forrest Gilmore

Rev. Forrest Gilmore is a Unitarian Universalist minister and the executive director of the Shalom Community Center, a resource center in Bloomington for people experiencing extreme poverty.

Friends of Lake Monroe

Friends of Lake Monroe's mission is to protect and enhance Lake Monroe and its watershed through science, advocacy, and public involvement: working collaboratively with citizens, government, and business to improve and support lake water quality.

Grayson Pitts

Grayson is an Indianapolis native with a penchant for adventure, testing the human body's limits, and enjoying moments with friends. He has an English degree from DePauw and has worked as a guinea pig, cupcake driver, ESL teacher, and writer.

Haley Miller

Haley Miller is a metro reporter at The Advocate in Baton Rouge and freelance journalist. She earned her journalism degree from IU and won first place from Indiana SPJ in 2024 for social justice reporting with Christina Avery.

Harriet Castrataro

Harriet Castrataro grew up loving words. Her mother wrote plays and her grandmother wrote poems. She worked at the Lilly Library, taught English by correspondence, and advised IU health students. She's now retired in Bloomington with her husband.

Hayley Miller

Hayley Miller is a marketing rep by day and aspiring freelance writer by night. She says writing is the perfect way to explore the community and unfamiliar topics. Her passions include true crime, hiking, advocacy for women, and her dog.

Hiromi Yoshida

Hiromi Yoshida is a freelance writer and editor who has contributed to Bloom Magazine, The Ryder, and Video Librarian. She's poetry editor of Flying Island Journal and serves on the Writers Guild board, coordinating the Last Sunday Poetry series.

Ian Carstens

Ian Carstens is a filmmaker/curator from the Mississippi River Valley in Iowa with a BA in Art Theory from Luther College. He's lead curator/filmmaker for GlassBreakfast.com, a project he started in 2018. He lives and works in southern Indiana.

Jami Scholl

Jami Scholl is a Bloomington native with degrees in Visual Communication Design, Creative Writing, and Cultural Anthropology. A certified Health & Wellness coach, she was a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard.

Jared Posey

Jared Posey was born in Elwood, Indiana, and graduated from Purdue. He's interested in mindfulness, the food movement, conscious parenting, and connecting kids to nature. He wrote for TAKE ROOT magazine and self-published Will Work for Food.

Jen Hockney Bratton

Jen Hockney Bratton worked in television and for Oprah.com before moving to Bloomington. She now teaches fitness classes at Bloomington Body Bar and loves writing, reading, and cheering on the Hoosiers.

Jennifer Hoewe

Jennifer Hoewe is an associate professor at Purdue's Brian Lamb School studying media psychology and political communication. She's published 50+ publications, co-founded the PRIME Lab, and is a Faculty Fellow.

Jennifer Pacenza

Jennifer Pacenza is a former Renaissance literature scholar with an enduring love for theater. After coming to Bloomington in 2009, she was inspired by the performance talent here. She's written about theater for Limestone Post since January 2017.

Jennifer Piurek

Jennifer Piurek is director of communications and special projects at IU's Office of the Provost. She earned her master's in journalism from IU in 2000 and planted roots in Bloomington, where she's happily raising her family, doing yoga, and reading.

Jennifer Richler

Jennifer Richler is a native Canadian who moved to Bloomington in 2008. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology but left academia to become a freelance writer. She writes about child development, disabilities, and Israeli society.

Jenny Elig

Jenny Elig is a writer, editor, bassist, and cat enthusiast. She's licensed to cut and color hair in Indiana. In her spare time, she knits dolls of pop culture icons like Big Freedia.

Jill Bond

Jill Bond learned to love reading and writing in rural Iowa. She holds degrees from University of Oregon and IU. She's been a reporter, editor, and managing editor and is now news director at The Herald-Times.

Jim Allison

Jim Allison earned a Ph.D. from University of Michigan and joined IU's psychology department. He worked as an experimental psychologist, wrote Behavioral Economics (1983), and co-wrote The Accidental Mayor. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 1992.

Jim Manion

Jim Manion has been writing about music since 1973 for Bloomington publications including Primo Times, The Ryder, and The Bloomington Independent, plus No Depression and Paste. In 2021 he retired as music director of WFHB, which he's held since 1993.

John Mikulenka

The writer of this essay grew up in Indianapolis and has been following the Sylvia Likens story for most of his life. The school photo was taken around the time he first started reading about the case in 1971.

Jonah Chester

Jonah Chester is an IU senior majoring in journalism and criminal justice. Born and raised in Trafalgar, he formerly wrote for the Indiana Daily Student. His favorite stories cover crime in Indiana, from drug trafficking to the prison system.

Jonna Mary Yost

Jonna Mary Yost grew up in Montana and now lives in the Midwest. She teaches yoga at Know Yoga Know Peace and seeks to bring the spirit of Montana's backwoods to her Indiana outdoor adventures.

Josephine McRobbie

Dr. Michael McRobbie served as IU's 18th president from 2007 to 2021. He's an accomplished computer scientist, advocate for international education, and recipient of many awards. He and his wife Laurie are active in the Bloomington community.

Julia Vaughn

Julia Vaughn is Executive Director of Common Cause Indiana, a nonpartisan grassroots organization working to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest and empowers all people in the political process.

Justin Banks

Justin Banks has lived in Bloomington since 1995. He discovered photography while attending Bloomington High School South (photojournalism class, photography class, and Gothic Yearbook staff 1997-2000). He has been a street photographer since 2012.

Kathiann M. Kowalski

Kathi is the author of 25 books and 600+ articles on science and policy issues. A Harvard Law School alumna, she practiced law for 15 years. She's a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and National Association of Science Writers.

Kathryn Moyle

Kathryn is an adjunct professor at three Australian universities and Honorary Principal Fellow at University of Melbourne. She specializes in school education policies and is a dementia advocate for Dementia Australia.

Keri Jean Miksza

Keri Jean Miksza worked on university marketing textbooks for two decades. She now works with Susan Yeley Homes in Bloomington and is an advocate for public education with the Indiana Coalition for Public Education–Monroe County.

Krista Detor

Krista Detor is an award-winning musician, composer, and writer recognized by the Indiana Legislature for Contributions to the Arts. She and her husband run The Hundredth Hill artist retreat, fostering cross-genre artistic visions.

Laura Lasuertmer

Laura Lasuertmer is a writer, mother, and co-founder of Common Home Farm, an interfaith farming community north of Bloomington. She facilitates creative writing circles with Women Writing for (a) Change. Visit commonhomefarm.org.

Laura Martinez

Laura Martinez is Lipan Apache and a third-generation American Indian Movement member. She earned degrees in history from IU. She plays roller derby as Diamond Dog and teaches Native American history on TikTok @diamond_dog74.

Laurie D. Borman

Laurie D. Borman is a central Indiana writer and editor. A former travel magazine editor and past president of the Society of American Travel Writers, she taught magazine reporting at IU. She moved from Chicago to Indiana for the hills and hiking.

Lindsay Welsch Sveen

Lindsay Welsch Sveen earned her English Ph.D. in May of 2015 and is a Visiting Lecturer at Indiana University. She loves music, baking, and, most of all, knitting. She lives on the Near West Side with her husband, Sam, and their dog, Ula.

Luke Wood

Luke Wood is a research associate and policy analyst at the Indiana School of Global International Studies. He teaches West European politics at IU and served as a Bloomington commissioner for Hispanic and Latino affairs from 2013 to 2014.

Lynae Sowinski

Lynae co-founded Limestone Post in 2015 as Editorial Director. A Bloomington native and IU journalism graduate, she now lives in Athens, Georgia, working for Global Online Academy, a nonprofit reimagining education.

M.J. Bower

M.J. Bower is a Speech Language Pathologist empowering people through improved communication. Originally from Maine, she settled in Bloomington. She founded The Bloomington Townie and The Townie Travels.

Marjorie Hershey

Marjorie Hershey is Professor Emerita of Political Science at IU. Her research focuses on political parties, campaigns, and elections. She has received 17 teaching awards and volunteers with the Hoosier Hills Food Bank.

Mark Stosberg

Mark Stosberg is a software engineer and spatial analyst. He grew up on a wooded farm in Kentucky but didn't appreciate the value of open spaces until he left home. Now, long runs provide a grounding counterbalance to his screen time.

Matt Flaherty

Matt Flaherty holds degrees in engineering (Illinois) and law (IU). He practiced patent law, then pursued a career as a professional runner, writer, and run coach. He returned to IU to study energy and climate at SPEA.

McKee Woods

McKee Woods is a Bloomington writer who graduated from IU's School of Journalism. McKee has written for Glamour, Women's Wear Daily, New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and Paper, and is writing a fictional memoir and screenplay.

Megan Betz

Megan Betz is a doctoral candidate in Geography at IU researching local food and community. With degrees in journalism and sustainability, she merges these interests into storytelling. She gardens with her daughter.

Megan Snook

Megan Snook began documentary photography at seventeen after living across America and Africa as a military child. She studied journalism and anthropology at IU and operates wet plate collodion studios in Bloomington and Evergreen, Colorado.

Melissa Cyders

Dr. Melissa Cyders earned her Ph.D. from University of Kentucky in 2009. She's a Professor of Psychology at IUPUI studying impulsivity, particularly alcohol and substance use disorders. She contributed to the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Model.

Michael G. Glab

Michael G. Glab has been an independent writer since 1983. His in-depth personality profiles were a staple in the Chicago Reader for two decades. He hosts WFHB's Big Talk and writes The Electron Pencil blog.

Michael Waterford

Michael Waterford was born in Bloomington. He travels, writes, and manages The Mountain Folk expedition team. His travels have taken him around the world twice, down the Mississippi River, and to six continents.

Michelle Gottschlich

Michelle Gottschlich is a poet, freelance writer, and MFA candidate at University of Virginia. She earned a BA in English from IU. Her books Void Sets and How to Keep Full in February were published by Monster House Press.

Miles Reiter

Miles Reiter is an informatics and media major at Indiana University, a part-time videographer and photographer. He posts YouTube videos ranging from electronics reviews to vlogs to cinematic nature videos.

Miller Susens

Miller Susens is a junior studying music education at IU Jacobs School of Music. A Dallas native, she focused on string chamber music in high school. She enjoys birthdays, animal socks, Mexican cuisine, road trips, and writes for Odyssey Online.

Nathan Clark

Nathan Clark studied biotechnology at Ivy Tech and worked as an EMT before photography. He moved to Bloomington in 2013 and spends late nights at Lake Monroe capturing the Milky Way. His long-exposure photography focuses on outdoors and conservation.

Nick Bauer

Nick Bauer enjoys photography, writing, and video production. He is a lawyer in his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, and spends ample time with friends and family, biking around town, and reading.

Nick Mangieri

Nick Mangieri (#56) is a senior on the IU football team, a two-time Academic All-Big Ten selection majoring in business management. The Peoria native plays defensive end at 6-5, 270 pounds.

Nicole M. Bennett

Nicole is a Ph.D. candidate in geography and assistant director at IU's Center for Refugee Studies. She studies migration, data governance, and digital technologies, examining how AI and algorithmic systems influence refugee protection and rights.

Nikki Livingston

Nikki Livingston is a storyteller at IU who advances the university's reputation through storytelling across diverse fields. Topics she covers include arts and humanities, science and technology, global issues, law, policy, and education.

Paige Strobel

Paige Strobel is a Bloomington native who studied at Auburn University and worked as a Chicago nurse in the Pediatric ICU. Her nursing fostered personal growth and a love for storytelling. She's returning to Bloomington to pursue photojournalism.

Patti Danner

Patti Danner relocated to Greene County, Indiana, from Seattle in 2001 after meeting a Hoosier on eBay. They married on Halloween 2004. She's been writing professionally since January 2016 as a staff writer for the Greene County Daily World.

Patti Danner, Staff Writer, Greene County Daily World

Patti Danner is a feature writer for the Greene County Daily World, a 100-year-old newspaper that's the largest daily in Greene County, printed Tuesday through Saturday.

Paul Bean

Paul Bean is a 2017 IU graduate who studied U.S. history and English. Writing is his passion, and he hopes to do it full time. He reads voraciously and has traveled all over the United States. Bloomington is his home for now.

Paulina Guerrero

Paulina Guerrero moved to Bloomington in 2011 for grad school in folklore. She hails from Washington, D.C., and is an East Coaster at heart with a past life creating raucous street theater. She's quietly becoming infatuated with the Midwest.

Rachel Glago

Rachel Glago is a Bloomington transplant from Sonoma, California. She earned degrees from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA and MS in Marketing from IU Kelley. She's Projects Coordinator at Secretly Group and Executive Director at MidWay Music Speaks.

Rebecca Hill

Rebecca Hill is a freelance writer covering science, technology, education, and health. She has degrees from Purdue, Valparaiso Law, and IUPUI. She's a member of the League of Women Voters, Limestone Media Board, and Health Care Journalists.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) is the leading pro bono legal services organization for journalists in the U.S., protecting First Amendment freedoms. Kris Cundiff is the Indiana Local Legal Initiative Attorney.

Richard Campbell

Richard Campbell is a professor emeritus and founding chair of the Department of Media, Journalism & Film at Miami University in Ohio. He is the board secretary for the Oxford Free Press.

Richard Koenig

Richard Koenig received his BFA from Pratt Institute and MFA from IU in 1998. He teaches photography at Kalamazoo College. His work Photographic Prevarications was shown in six exhibits. He's working on a Transcontinental Railroad documentary.

Rob Stone

Shari Stone is a freelance writer and former newspaper reporter covering courts, cops, and government in Bloomington. She writes for Herald-Times and Indiana Daily Student and enjoys hiking, camping, and spending time with family.

Ron Eid

Ron Eid is an award-winning journalist who co-founded Limestone Post Magazine with Lynae Sowinski in 2015 as an online publication featuring long-form stories about arts, outdoors, social issues, and more in Bloomington and south-central Indiana.

Rosalyn R. LaPier

Rosalyn LaPier is a Professor of History at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An award-winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian, and ethnobotanist, she is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe and Métis.

Ruthie Cohen

Ruthie Cohen moved from New Jersey to Bloomington in 2011. When not devising recipes and feeding friends, she practices and teaches yoga at Bloomington Yoga Collective and Monroe County YMCA.

Samantha Eibling

Samantha Eibling is a certified yoga teacher and blogger helping students cultivate deeper awareness. She uses humor and personal experiences in her teaching. She offers sessions, workshops, and classes at SamanthaEiblingYoga.com and Vibe Yoga.

Samuel Welsch Sveen

Samuel Welsch Sveen is a Bloomington transplant from New York, born in South Dakota. With a B.A. in English from Cornell, he oversaw an NYC art-news website. He freelance writes, rides motorcycles, and is a dad.

Sara Sheikh

Sara Sheikh spent her first 19 years in Fort Wayne before moving to Bloomington in 1995 to attend IU, graduating from Kelley School with a marketing degree. She's worked with local companies developing communications and marketing strategies.

Sarah Gordon

Sarah Gordon came to Bloomington in 2007 for grad school after living in Canada, England, Japan, and the Pacific Northwest. She finished her folklore Ph.D. in 2014 and writes freelance. She's been a staff blogger for Earth Eats.

Sarah Stonbely

Sarah Stonbely, Ph.D., directs the State of Local News Project at Northwestern. She earned her doctorate from NYU in 2015. Her expertise includes journalism culture and practice, local news ecosystems, media policy, and research methodology.

Sean Chung

Sean Chung earned his M.P.A. and M.S.E.S. in Energy Policy from IU O'Neill School in 2020. He volunteers with Monroe County's invasive species program and hopes to pursue a career developing solar and wind energy.

Sean Starowitz

Sean M. Starowitz is an artist/community member focusing on issues within our built environment. He's a 2010 Kansas City Art Institute graduate. He currently lives in southern Indiana as assistant director of arts for Bloomington and teaches at IU.

Seth Teeters

Seth Teeters is a Bloomington photographer and videographer doing weddings, portraits, and aerial videos. He owns an FAA-certified drone service providing video production, photography, surveying, mapping, and inspections.

Shannon Livengood

Shannon Livengood is a magazine reporter and photojournalist who earned her B.A. in Journalism from IU in 2021. She lives in Bloomington, exploring local food, arts, and culture. She enjoys practicing the arts and hiking.

Sheila Suess Kennedy

Sheila Suess Kennedy is Emerita Professor of Law and Public Policy at IUPUI. She's the author of nine books, blogs daily at sheilakennedy.net, and is a frequent contributor to the Indianapolis Star and other periodicals.

Sierra Vandervort

Sierra Vandervort is a freelance journalist finishing her journalism and music degree at IU. She focuses on magazine and feature writing. She loves adventuring, discovering new art and music, and is obsessed with Spider-Man.

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Stella H.

Stella H. is an 11-year-old 5th-grader at Childs Elementary in Bloomington who dreams of becoming an attorney for The Nature Conservancy. She's passionate about art, science, basketball, travel, and attacking her little brother with pillows.

Steve Hinnefeld

Steve Hinnefeld is a journalist and former Herald-Times reporter, IU media relations specialist, and IU Media School instructor. He writes about education at inschoolmatters.wordpress.com and lives in Bloomington with his wife.

Steven Higgs

Steven Higgs is a Bloomington journalist, photographer, and author. He's written three books for IU Press on environmental heroism and natural areas of Indiana and taught journalism at IU for 27 years.

Susan Farrell

Susan Farrell is a professor of English at the College of Charleston specializing in contemporary American fiction. Her research focuses on American war literature, with recent books on Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien.

Susan M. Brackney

Susan M. Brackney is a beekeeper and freelance writer, author of Plan Bee and three other nonfiction titles. She specializes in organic gardening, beekeeping, and green living. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and other publications.

TJ Jaeger

TJ Jaeger is a reporter, writer, filmmaker, and musician in Bloomington. He wrote for the Indiana Daily Student and WIUX while studying journalism at IU and currently writes for NUVO. He's worked on movie sets including The Good Catholic.

Tom Duszynski

Thomas Duszynski has worked in public health for 17 years. He served as field epidemiologist and director of field epidemiology at the Indiana State Department of Health, where he was named incident commander for all state public health emergencies.

Tomi and Jim Allison

Tomi and Jim Allison: Jim earned a Ph.D. and taught psychology at IU, writing Behavioral Economics (1983). Tomi was a probation officer and Bloomington Mayor 1983-1995. They described her experience in The Accidental Mayor (2015).

Trent Deckard

Trent Deckard is a videographer who creates YouTube content as Interesting Ted, known for urban exploration and cross-country road trips. He enjoys nature and working with electronics.

Troy Maynard

Troy Maynard is a giant viking, foodie, geeky gamer, father of three, and master of none. He writes about life from his Mead Hall in southern Indiana and works in software. He wrote How to Raise Viking Children and Other Tales of Woe.

Trung Le

Born in Northern Vietnam, Trung came to the U.S. in 2006 as an exchange student. He lived in French Lick for 11 years, returned to Vietnam, got married, had two kids, and returned to Indiana in 2024 as a freelance journalist.

Wesley P. Martin

Wes Martin is a writer, photographer, and journalist from Bloomington. He's worked with NPR affiliate KUT in Austin, WFIU/WTIU in Bloomington, and was Assistant News Director at WFHB. He enjoys stories explaining systems and social infrastructure.

Will Reed

Will Reed and his wife Theresa are missionaries in South Sudan. Born in Bloomington, Will graduated from IU in 2007. They enjoy books, long hikes, and IU basketball. Follow their blog at willandtheresareed.blogspot.com.

Yaël Ksander

Yaël Ksander has worked as a radio producer, speechwriter, drawing instructor, and translated at the Seoul Olympics. A D.C. native, she studied at UVA and Columbia before pursuing an M.F.A. in painting in Bloomington, where she raised two children.

Zak Szymanski

Zak Szymanski was a journalist in New York and San Francisco. He freelances, occasionally teaches writing at IU, and is a broker associate at RE/MAX Realty Professionals in Bloomington.