Brandice Wilson pretends to be a free-spirited rocker chick, completely immersed within the Hollywood lifestyle. Between obligatory Starbucks rendezvous and Nine Inch Nails and Raconteurs concerts, she reads extensively, writes not too prolifically, and patronizes art venues of all shapes, sizes, and forms. A fervent libertarian who is female but not that female, Brandice is ambitious, highly idiosyncratic, opinionated, and sarcastic, and she keeps at least one phalange in every cookie jar. However, in the realistic world, she spends most of her time eyeball-deep in pre-medical studies, nearing the end of her fourth year at USC.

Dino Nama II is frankly not sure how he ended up as a History major, having come in as an Architecture major, which is why he probably spends so much of his time doing anything but studying history. Such activities might include composing music, sketching ancient and futuristic cities, painting, taking photographs, and going on forty mile walks. However, he still sneaks in a couple dozen hours a week reading and writing about the history of anything from conniving monks to masterless samurai. Which he enjoys very much by the way. He is probably going to retire one fine day in the misty hills of Japan either as a master blacksmith or constant beard-stroking, philosophy-dropping, professional sake-taster.

Derrick Sun is a senior at USC, studying public relations and communication design. He is also currently working at Deutsch Inc. During his past three years at USC, Derrick has been involved with Program Board, the Daily Trojan, Trojan Vision, and Fight On for Darfur. In his free time, he enjoys eating delicious food and watching too much TV.

Jason Lipshin is a junior majoring in film studies and minoring in visual culture and digital studies. When he is not blogging for Film Independent or working for the Warner Bros. Archives, he enjoys tap dancing, riding busses to locales all over the city, and picnicking at cemeteries (www.cinespia.org). As a budding cinema scholar with interests in everything from Kieslowski to Kanye, he’s happy to have found a space like AngeLingo where academic and popular languages can co-exist without too much of the usual cat fighting.

Tony Ring walks around with a sharpie and corrects spelling and grammar mistakes on signs around Los Angeles… Okay, not really, but he would if he could remember to bring a sharpie with him. Although grammar may appear to be his passion, he is actually a Political Science major with a calling for cooking and baking. Thus, he often has to print out his school papers several times before handing them in because they inevitably become dotted with bits of pesto and creamed butter. Hailing from Lake Tahoe, he enjoys snowboarding and hot chocolate. And beer.

Maddie Reddington is a sophomore majoring in print journalism. She also writes for the Daily Trojan and interns for KSCR radio. Maddie wishes there was a professional way to combine her interests in jazz, film, hip hop, running, community service, t-shirt-making, news reporting, fun-having, triathlons, vocal, theater, visual arts, creative writing and psychology into some kind of feasible career. She realizes that this may not be entirely possible, but still hopes to continue enjoying as many of these things as possible for as long as she possibly can. She thinks Angelingo is awesome!

Sam Oltman is a senior studying print journalism and French. With graduation, a frightening lack of job prospects, and heaps of student debt looming this May, she spends her time imagining M.A.S.H. scenarios for her future. Should she be a NY Times journalist and critically lauded author who drives a dump truck, lives in an unheated shack in Montana, and is married to a late 80’s Anthony Kiedis? Or should she be a repossession agent who drives a B.M.W., lives in an ocean-view mansion in Malibu, and is married to Steve Buscemi? Or maybe she should just go back to Paris, marry a Frenchman (any one will do), and live as a housewife au Trocadéro, making babies and baking tartes? Hmm, she wonders. Hmm…

Norah Ashe-McNalley is a senior lecturer in the College Writing Program. For the past four years, she and her colleague Dr. Inman Berens have worked as the advisors to AngeLingo, seeing it through several different incarnations. A native Angelino herself, Dr. Ashe-McNalley has firmly planted herself in Los Angeles. She teaches at the school where her parents fell in love and lives in the home where she was raised, with her husband, two children, and a white picket fence.

Kathi Inman Berens, a senior lecturer in the College’s Writing Program, founded AngeLingo four years ago with Dr. Norah Ashe-McNalley and a team of students. She continues as AngeLingo’s co-advisor. She directs USC’s Undergraduate Writers’ Conference. She is a Fellow at USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching www.usc.edu/programs/cet/. A Valley girl, she commutes from Encino, where she lives with her husband, two kids, and a Welsh Corgi.