Meet Chantal Eulenstein
Chantal Eulenstein
Chantal Eulenstein is a newsroom intern at The Blade and is a rising sophomore at Yale University. Originally from Ames, Iowa, she is very excited to be reporting in the Midwest this summer!
At Yale, Chantal is an associate editor at The New Journal, a longform magazine focusing on narrative journalism, investigative reporting, and creative work about Yale and New Haven. Chantal is also a city reporter for the Yale Daily News, where she has covered local alder elections and the appointment of New Haven’s new police chief. Chantal also writes and edits for The Politic, Yale’s political publication, and this past year wrote a feature for The New Journal about noise and bikers in New Haven.
Chantal hopes to major in English and American Studies, and to pursue a career in journalism after college.
Outside of journalism, Chantal is part of Yale’s Brazil club, where she enjoys cooking and celebrating holidays with other Brazilians and Brazilian-Americans at Yale. She also enjoys writing creatively, reading memoirs and fiction, and learning new recipes from her mother. Her recent favorite reads have been Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.
Meet Laura Amezquita Cadavid
Laura Amezquita Cadavid
Laura Amezquita Cadavid is a rising junior at the University of Notre Dame. She resides in the (distant) city of Perrysburg, Ohio, but is originally from Medellín, Colombia. Laura graduated from Notre Dame Academy. Now at Notre Dame, she is majoring in political science with minors in impact consulting and the Gallivan Program of journalism ethics and democracy.
Within the world of political science, she is involved in various clubs, such as the Student Policy Network, where she gets to lead projects that present deliverables to think tanks and councils. Laura is heavily involved with the Saint Bahkita’s Vocational Training Center in Kalongo, Uganda. Last semester she had the privilege of traveling there to conduct market research.
Laura is also involved in various student media clubs. She is the news editor for Scholastic Magazine, where she works with a group of student writers for monthly publications. She is also involved in NDTV, the university TV station. Laura and her friends have their own radio station on WSND called “the Crashout Chronicles.”
Being from Colombia, Laura is passionate about Latin American politics and relations with the United States. She was able to spend a summer in Cusco, Peru, and further developed a passion for equal education opportunities.
Laura is known to promote community “at the price of inconvenience.” This is usually seen through her love for her friends, coffee, and music (playing and listening). She is tirelessly following the 419 Coffee Quest and spends more hours on Spotify than she would like to admit. Her dog Toto and her horse Celtic also play a large role in her life and her love for animals.
Laura hopes to pursue a career in a field that combines her various interests, whether it be law, nonprofit work, political journalism, or some other related profession.
Meet Kelly Kong
Kelly Kong
Kelly Kong is a newsroom intern at The Blade and a rising junior at Yale University. Originally from Massachusetts, she is very excited to be working in Toledo this summer!
On campus, she serves as the co-editor-in-chief of the New Journal, a longform magazine that publishes five issues of investigative reporting, narrative nonfiction, and creative work about Yale and New Haven per year. Prior to this summer, she’s extensively covered Connecticut’s homeschooling policy oversight, failures in Yale’s mental health and leave policies, as well as President Trump’s ban on international students from China.
Kelly also covers education and development, housing, and homelessness for the Yale Daily News and edits features for the Yale Herald, a weekly news and culture publication.
Outside of journalism, Kelly enjoys sumo oranges and boba without tapioca. An avid media consumer, she loves going to the movies (and logging them on her Letterboxd), watching Sondheim musicals, and keeping up with book reviews on books she most likely won’t read. She looks forward to a great summer at The Blade.
Meet Cameron Nye
Cameron Nye
Cameron Nye is a newsroom intern at The Blade and is a rising senior at Yale University studying political science.
Originally from Lancaster, Pa., he is thrilled to work in a building next to a field because it reminds him of his Amish neighbors. At Yale, Cameron previously was a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News’ Arts Desk, where he covered theater and the performing arts. This year, he left that all behind and began writing reviews, acting as the News’ chief theater critic. He has also written for the Yale Daily News Magazine and the Yale Herald.
Cameron’s previous summers have been spent flipping burgers at McDonald’s, writing signs for butterfly exhibits at the Reading Museum, and reporting for his hometown newspaper, the Ephrata Review, where he covered everything from up-and-coming morticians to corn-cob-eating competitions.
Outside of journalism, Cameron plays the clarinet in the Yale University Wind Ensemble and is the president of Yale’s handbell ensemble. He is also an active member of Yale’s American Sign Language club. In his spare time, he enjoys caring for the slew of houseplants that occupy his windowsill.
Top 10 biggest style mistakes
News Editor Alicia Gruver will be providing regular Style Snapshots for us so we can better adhere to our style. To get things started, we are pointing out what we’re calling the Top 10 biggest style mistakes.
1) We use the Oxford comma. (Ex. red, white, and blue.)
2) We say news conference, not press conference.
3) When we refer to days within the week, we use the day, not the date.
4) Protesters and advisers are spelled with an “e” and not an “o” at the end.
5) There is a comma between months and years (Ex. January, 2022).
6) Use periods when abbreviating legislative bills. (Ex. H.B. 51.)
7) Jr. and Sr. get commas around them. (Ex. Martin Luther King, Jr.,…)
8) We use single quotes in cutlines.
9) Numbers are used with percentages, and we spell out the word “percent.” (Ex. 1 percent.)
10) Health care is two words and is hyphenated if used as a modifier to another word (Ex. health-care workers.)
