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MEET THE TEAM

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Laura Wilson, Publishing Director

A sophomore concentrating in Applied Math who loves linear algebra (so much so that she spins around in her chair and squeals with glee when describing its application to differential equations), Laura adores a good cup of coffee and the word “amazing.” She also appreciates minimalist outfits and pastel colors. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Laura did ballet in another life, and her spoken-word play incorporating both math and dance has wowed people the world over. She has also infected her coworkers with her continued usage of the word “y’all.” (Editor’s note: we don’t mind. It’s very efficient.)

Cassandra Luca, Editor-in-Chief

A font enthusiast with a penchant for blurting out incomplete phrases in French and Spanish at odd moments, Cassandra is a sophomore originally from Newton, MA. (Relocating to Cambridge was an ordeal requiring a lot of adjustment, as moving ten miles away from anywhere often does.) As someone who really likes words, she actually enjoys editing Researcher-Writer copy, her friends’ papers, and basically anything else she can get her hands on; if you couldn’t tell, she’s an English concentrator. Outside of Let’s Go, she reports for The Harvard Crimson’s News Board. Her hobbies include learning foreign languages, buying outrageously expensive stationery—the kind with thick, smooth paper, not the ones filled with wannabe flimsy sheets—writing in her bullet journal, gushing about nineteenth-century literature, biking on crowded (read: dangerous) Boston streets, finding new types of granola, and comparing all the aforementioned granola she’s ever had the good fortune to consume. She loves the color red, poached eggs, Paris, skincare that does what it says it does, cream cheese frosting, and late-night conversations.

Danielle Eisenman, Associate Editor

Danielle is a sophomore originally from New York. She lives in Mather House and studies History and Literature. Outside of Let’s Go, Danielle DJs for WHRB Harvard Radio’s Record Hospital and writes about music and films for The Harvard Crimson. Her favorite color is iridescent, her favorite milkshake flavor is strawberry malt, and her favorite art form is the coming-of-age high school dramedy. Talk to her if you’re curious to see how far someone can stretch a joke that never really made sense in the first place.

RESEARCHER-WRITERS

Julia Bunte-Mein

Brace yourselves for an intense gastronomical experience featuring wine, cheese, and tapas in Eastern Spain and Southern France, courtesy of world nomad extraordinaire: Julia. A proud foodie, linguaphile, art-lover, and fitness aficionada, catch Julia doing early-morning yoga in the most obscure of places, scouring cities for little-known art galleries, and going to the most extreme lengths to sample the local cuisine. When she’s not getting lost in European countries, Julia studies Government and Environmental Sustainability at Harvard.

Margaret Canady

This summer, Margaret found herself in Greece and the region of Tuscany, Italy, quite far from her tried and true Texas roots. Armed only with a terrible sense of direction and a half-empty travel sized bottle of suntan lotion, she braved the difficulties of Mediterranean traveling, which included having too many sunsets to watch and too much good art to review. Adventures included eating her weight in gelato, pretending to know the difference between regional wines (“This is supposed to taste like smoky blueberries? I’m getting hints of…red wine”), and convincing the Greeks that yes, she really is from Texas, cowboys come in all shapes, genders and sizes, and unfortunately no, she doesn’t ride a horse to school. When not working on her Chaco tan or pretending she knows how to pronounce the Greek language, she studies psychology and dance, which have nothing (or everything) to do with world traveling, depending on your perspective.

Eric Chin

Warm Mediterranean sun on the back of his neck, the feeling of sand between his toes on an Italian beach, champagne on a tiled French portico… Wait—Eric’s going where? Iceland and Scandinavia? Shit. He may have to trade in sandals for hiking boots and survive on a diet of sheep’s head and “putrescent” shark meat (seriously, look it up), but at least he’ll get to take advantage of the free education, right? Oh, it’s summer? Well what about the free healthcare? Hopefully not? Okay, fine. He’ll just have to settle for climbing behind waterfalls, kayaking through fjords, hiking on glaciers, and fulfilling his mission of finding as much IKEA furniture as he possibly can.

Emily Corrigan

Emily prepared for her travels in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands this summer in a Rocky-esque training montage: speed-eating croissants, running up hills wearing comfortable walking sandals, and bench pressing her 30-liter Osprey travel backpack. However, she realized the intense training may have been getting to her when she drop-kicked a box of macaroons off the Eiffel Tower, injuring three. For the rest of the summer, she recovered by playing chess with nice Flemish people. She ate frites. She took a silly yet endearing picture intentionally missing the point of the Louvre pyramid with her finger. She is now fully rehabilitated.

Austin Eder

A junior at a small liberal arts college just outside of Boston, Austin spent her summer city-hopping in Spain. An avid reader and a lover of the performing arts, she felt right at home on the cobblestone streets of Granada’s Albaicín. Here, the scents of tanned leather and cured meats mingle in the air, and the sounds of guitar and castanets reverberate through rickety wooden doors and crumbling mud walls. When not reviewing museums, restaurants, bars, and the like, Austin spends her time discussing domestic and international affairs at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and doing freelance copywriting and marketing work for real estate, tech, and law firms based in Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago, respectively. In her free time, she enjoys jamming to indie rock, studying art and literature, Wikipedia deep-diving, contemplating life’s larger questions, and exploring the greater Boston area on foot.

Lucy Golub

Navigationally challenged to a fault, Lucy has no idea what she’s doing. But she’s an expert at faking-it-til-you-make-it. Follow along as she discovers hidden gems and alleys throughout Great Britain and Ireland, often truly by accident. Yet these accidents help her befriend locals in a desperate attempt to get back on a familiar street. Getting lost (sometimes on purpose) results in discovering hole-in-the-wall restaurants and colorful murals off the beaten path. Other than being bad with directions, Lucy’s other talents include an ability to eat anyone under the table when cheese is involved (and probably get some mouth-watering pictures while doing it @OurLifeInFood.) In the classroom, she studies Social Studies, which means she’s got the being-social-in-a-hostel thing down. Or that’s what she keeps telling herself as she struggles to understand Irish accents. A New York City native, Lucy’s an expert on making the most of a city and exploring new neighborhoods. You can probably find her singing musical theater after checking out a local performance, breaking her third pair of sandals, or trying to convince Brits she meets at the pub that she doesn’t hate beer.

Nick Grundlingh

Nick Grundlingh is going to spend the summer traveling through Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. He’s looking forward to—Sorry, what was that? What’s Nick wearing? That’s his fanny pack. Anyway, Nick is looking forward to meeting—Look, Nick really doesn’t see what’s so funny about it, unless you think keeping your valuables safe is some sort of joke. Now, where was he? Oh yeah. Nick can’t wait to meet new people and—Seriously, guys. Knock it off. You know, in Europe, people make fun of you if you don’t wear one. At least Nick assumes they do. He hasn’t actually been yet. But it’s probably very similar to how he just described it.

Kristine Guillaume

Kristine traded her editor’s desk at Let’s Go HQ for an even more unglamorous life: a pack stuffed to the brim with extra underwear, much-needed shower shoes for grimy hostel bathrooms, and ridiculously rationed quantities of body lotion and hair product to tame the frizz (her efforts, however valiant, proved unsuccessful). Once packed, she took her set of extra fine pens and trusty Moleskine to the south of France, where she sampled bouchons in Lyon, strolled along le promenade in Nice, and swirled countless glasses of wine in Bordeaux. When Kristine isn’t consuming ungodly amounts of beurre, pain, et vin, she enjoys writing for the News Board of The Harvard Crimson, drinking English Breakfast tea, and indulging her terrifyingly intense addiction to television.

Adrian Horton

Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, Adrian will be honing her bakery-finding skills in Greece and southern Italy this summer. Prior work experience: ranch-hand, gardener, fruit bat cage cleaner, one-time contributor to her hometown’s Wikipedia page. Her current interests include distance running, 90s music, and convincing people she has seen Game of Thrones Seasons 1-5 (she hasn’t, but oh my god wasn’t the Red Wedding in Season 3 BANANAS?!). When she isn’t watching movie trailers on YouTube, she studies History and Literature at Harvard and sometimes writes about pop culture.

Alejandro Lampell

Continuing with a desire to explore new places that stems from his time living in six different countries, Alejandro has set off on a new adventure in France and Switzerland, in which he will try to discover how much solitude he can handle while carrying all the clothes he needs for eight weeks in one hiking backpack. Not one to shy away from a challenge, Alejandro will explore the mountains of Switzerland and the beaches of Southern France, and indulge in the exquisite cuisine both countries have to offer. While not daydreaming about studying abroad, Alejandro likes to spend his time trying to learn to play the guitar or in the library, nestled between towers of books.

Gavin Moulton

In spite of a crippling Croatian supermarket crisis and the tragedy of a truffle hunting dog with an injured paw, Gavin was generally successful in covering Croatia from top to bottom - quite literally, he hiked to the summit of a mountain and went scuba diving. While he may have stayed in a hostel room of seven Canadian girls, another hostel room of five French girls, and another of four British girls, he somehow managed to stay focused on the important things: Dubrovnik’s best castrated rooster soup, gin-treehouse-bars in Zagreb, and award winning mausoleums in Cavtat. Did his trusty headlamp come in handy? You betcha! Did his blond hair lead to locals thinking he was Croatian? Da! Did he fall asleep on a beach and have to run four miles because he missed a bus? Yes, just don’t tell his mom who is under the impression that he only went to museums and other Croatian cultural sites.

Antonia Washington

Antonia is spending her summer pretending she knows a lot about wine and collecting tourist keychains she has no use for throughout Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, and Germany. Originally from Portland, Oregon, she spends much of her time schlepping through the wilderness and enjoys backpacking, kayaking, and low-pressure longboarding (because she’s just not good enough to brake efficiently so crowds make her nervous). Catch Antonia eating carbs, looking fly in white Crocs (Crocs is the most innovative company in the world), and pleading for her mom’s REI dividend.

Joseph Winters

Meet Joseph: junior, Earth and Planetary Science concentrator, vagrant vacationer. He spent eight weeks this summer in search of the Iberian Peninsula’s best veggie burger, but en route discovered a bunch of famous monuments, museums, and cultural landmarks—coincidentally, enough to cover a whole section of Let’s Go 2019! From petiscos in Porto to siestas in Salamanca, Joseph’s travels took him up the Portuguese coast and across northern Spain before depositing him in bustling Madrid. According to his Garmin, he walked just under one million steps while navigating from far-flung bullrings to slaughterhouses-turned-cultural centers. A trip so varied, the only real constant was the Nutella-and-toast breakfast combo at every hostel. When he’s not investigating tapas restaurants, Joseph enjoys distance running, playing piano, cooking, specialty coffee shops, and occasionally finishing a Thursday NYT crossword puzzle. He also writes for the Harvard Political Review and the Crimson, but the acme of his writing career was undoubtedly a blog post titled “What is Your Spirit Tapa?” His pet peeve is ambiguous museum signage.