{"id":1881,"date":"2025-04-22T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T02:51:58","slug":"alumni-of-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/04\/22\/alumni-of-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni of The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alumni of the Messenger<\/h1>\n

Elizabeth Taylor, Editor in Chief (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Elizabeth lives in Olathe, KS and graduated from Olathe West High School. She joined The Messenger because she was heavily involved in journalism in high school and wanted to leave a similar legacy here. A fun fact about her is that she loves traveling and has been fortunate to visit some amazing places.<\/p>\n

Audrey Hook, Managing Editor (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Audrey enjoys reading and creative writing in her free time. Her dream job would be to become a published author. One of her life goals is to travel to all 50 United States. So far, she has already visited 20 states. Audrey is an avid animal lover. She has a dog, Annie, who she loves with all of her heart.<\/p>\n

Xan Dahl, Video Production Editor (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Xan currently lives in Olathe, graduating from Olathe Northwest High School. They decided to join The Messenger so that they could advance their skills in video journalism work, as well as being in a professional environment. When not creating videos for the messenger, they are filming or creating stories with their friends.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Cash Navarro, Opinion and Life Editor (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Prior to his work at The Messenger, Cash had worked at BMPress where he won first at a state level for his opinion writing. Here at JCCC, Cash also worked as a Copy Editor and Deputy Editor in Chief for CavMag, which was the precursor to The Messenger. Cash hopes to continue into a career of writing after his work here.<\/p>\n

Noelle Johnson, Social Media Production Editor (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Noelle Johnson was born and raised in Olathe, Kansas, and still calls it home. Noelle graduated from Christ Preparatory Academy (a small, university-style, private school in Lenexa, KS) in May of 2024. Noelle decided to join The Messenger because of her interest in social media, career aspirations in digital marketing and advertising, and because she wanted to gain experience and make friends along the way! A fun fact about Noelle is that she loves to travel and sing!<\/span><\/p>\n

Vaughn Wheat, Photo Editor (Spring 2025)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vaughn<\/span>\u00a0has lived in Kansas City most of his life and graduated from Shawnee Mission North. He joined The Messenger to hone his skills as a photojournalist and help build a strong publication.\u00a0Vaughn<\/span>\u00a0also enjoys theater and crochet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alumni of the Messenger Elizabeth Taylor, Editor in Chief (Spring 2025) Elizabeth lives in Olathe, KS and graduated from Olathe West High School. She joined The Messenger because she was heavily involved in journalism in high school and wanted to leave a similar legacy here. A fun fact about her is that she loves traveling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-totally-blank","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,252],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[144],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-alumni-of-the-messenger"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Saul Epstein","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/","display_name":"Saul Epstein"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["About Us<\/a>","Alumni of The Messenger<\/a>"],"unlinked":["About Us<\/span>","Alumni of The Messenger<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 22, 2025","modified":"Updated on August 25, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 22, 2025 10:18 am","modified":"Updated on August 25, 2025 9:51 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":144,"user_id":14,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sepstein","display_name":"Saul Epstein","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/242743250151aa635fb6877a6297908eb822c865ab350944c13f515a89c76a78?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Saul","last_name":"Epstein","user_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/sepstein","job_title":"","description":"Where does this go?"}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}