Meet Our Staff!
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Attention teens in & near Asheville, NC!Want to join our team? TRILL is hiring for some volunteer staff positions. Go HERE for a list of available positions and a staff application. |
Spoken Word Editor
Read her TRILL Spoken Word blog HERE
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Shanita Jackson is a rising youth poet aspiring to inspire. She started passionately writing at age twelve and has been going strong and flourishing ever since. She is a freshman at Henderson County Early College on the Blue Ridge Community College campus. She began writing poetry as an outlet and later, when she discovered her poetry served as a voice for others, fell in love with writing. She’s won all three poetry slams in the Henderson County district, has come second in the 2011 WordSlam, and has come third in the Spring 2011 LEAF Youth Slam. She’s attended summer camps founded by True Ink, including Slam Camp and Transmedia. Her ultimate goal is to attend and win the Brave New Voices competition.
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Digital Arts Editor
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"My name is Aidan Weaver and I am a 9th grade student living in Asheville North Carolina. My interests involve graphic design, cartooning, drawing, watching horror movies, writing, and making animations. I’ve been to Cambodia, eaten fried spiders, and I can’t say the alphabet backwards successfully. I’ve been into graphic design and web design ever since I knew what Photoshop was, and I plan to go to a good college to help get a career in graphic design or film directing."
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Poetry Editor
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Rio Alvarado is one of the original founding members of “The WriteSite” and is now the Poetry Editor for TRILL. He was born in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Santa Fey, New Mexico. He began writing poetry when he was nine years old and continues to do so to this day. Some of his favorite writers are George Orwell, J.D. Salinger, T.S. Elliot and Allen Ginsberg. During his free time he enjoys editing, shooting short films and going to art galleries.
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Music Editor
Read his TRILL Music blog HERE
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Will Newman is a 16-year-old high school honor student from Asheville, North Carolina, who has been playing music since he was five years old. His many musical adventures have included opening for the Blues Brothers when he was ten years old, three years of playing clubs and festivals (as well as recording two CDs) with his funk band Jazz the Ripper, founding the performing jazz ensemble The Keynotes, and winning the gold medal at the 2011 New York Wind Festival at Carneige Hall with his high school symphonic band. In addition to his ongoing musical training, Will has attended the Stanford Jazz Camp, the Sonic Arts Workshop at Oberlin Conservatory, the Jamey Abersold Jazz Camp at the University of Louisville, the UNCA Band Camp (Outstanding Jazz Musician and Outstanding Camper), and the Swannanoa Gathering. Will is an Eagle Scout, and the American Visions Medal and Creativity and Citizenship Scholarship winner of the 2011 National Scholastic Art Awards. His most recent project “Believe Again” is a 6-track Christmas/Jazz CD. All profits from the CD go to Cancer Research group CLL Global. Find out more about Will Newman and the Believe Again Project at http://www.willnewmanmusic.com, find him on Facebook (fan page “Will Newman Music”) or follow him on Twitter (@willnewmanmusic).
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Prose Editor
Read her TRILL Writing blog HERE
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"I am Kayleigh Rhatigan, a ninth grader at Asheville High. I’ve been writing ever since 4th grade when my teacher told me I was good at it. In sixth grade I had my first book published, a kid’s book called Where Are You, Little Frog? Then, it was exciting. Now, it’s embarrassing. My biggest goals are to publish a novel, travel all the way around the world, and become fluent in Spanish."
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