Staff
Editor-in-Chief
Isha Kannan
Isha Kannan is currently a senior at Washington High School. She was born in Santa Clara, but has been living in Fremont since she was four. This is her third year working on The Hatchet and she currently holds the role of Editor-in-chief. She is excited to help the new journalists with their writing and beat ideas! Beyond writing, Isha loves practicing calligraphy, debating, and solving complex math problems. She is one of Washington High School’s three SURFBoardE representatives, Assistant Student Board Member to FUSD, and co-president of WHS Key Club. In the future she hopes to go to university!
Section Editors
Makoa Naraval
Makoa Elijah Reyes Naraval was born in Santa Clara but has lived in Fremont all his life. This will be his third and final year as a Hatchet Journalist. He is the section editor for features and is the lead video editor for the videos on the. Currently Makoa is on the Varsity football team and is looking to be playing Varsity Basketball in the Winter. In his spare time he likes to watch sports highlights or sports documentaries on YouTube and listen to music. But mainly hoop. After his last dance for the Hatchet, the plan stays the same with wanting to either attend a 4 year college right away or take it slow and go to a Juco first—no schools in mind yet.
Jordan Dyer
Jordyn Dyer is a senior at Washington High School. She was born in Union City California and has lived there her whole life. This is her second year at The Hatchet. She is currently the sports and health editor and also helps out with college and career center beats and also admin beats. Her favorite hobbies are being a part of the girls swim team along with music, writing, drawing, and anything creative. Her future plans are to move to San Diego and go to community college for two years. After her two years at community college, she would like to transfer to SDSU and major in nutrition with a minor in psychology then she wants to go into her own private practice.
Arjun Mathur
Arjun Mathur is a junior at Washington High School. He was born and raised in Fremont. This is his third year on the newspaper, and this year, he’s the news editor. Arjun is a member of the track and field team and vice president of Photography Club. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, writing about things he’s interested in, biking, discovering new music, doing photography, and sleeping too much. In the future, Arjun hopes to attend a good college and pursue a career in law.
Nikita Murugesan
Nikita Murugesan is a junior at Washington High School and has lived in Fremont for her entire life. This is her third year at The Hatchet where she is working as one of the Features editors. She is doing journalism to develop her communication skills and looks forward to a great year working with The Hatchet. In her free time, Nikita enjoys binging TV shows, eating lots of ice cream, listening to music, training for triathlons, and daydreaming. In the future Nikita plans to study engineering at UC Berkeley, found a startup, and complete a full distance Ironman.
Staff Reporters
Tanushree Gurumurthy
Tanushree Gurumurthy is a freshman at Washington High School and has lived in Fremont her entire life. This is her first year working on The Hatchet, and she is excited to cover clubs and student art. Outside of journalism, she enjoys playing on the tennis team, participating in her robotics team, and playing saxophone in band. In the future, Tanushree is exploring her interests but hopes to attend college and pursue a career related to business.
Samvrita Jithesh
Samvrita Jithesh is a current junior at Washington High School, and is in her first year of journalism. She was born in Mountain View and grew up in Fremont. She serves as a club reporter and restaurant critic for The Hatchet, and loves interviewing students and teachers around campus throughout the year. Outside of school, Samvrita enjoys reading, playing volleyball, and listening to music. As the Model UN Vice President and an active member in DECA, she enjoys attending conferences with her friends and forming new connections with peers. In the future, she hopes to attend a college where she can pursue her passions and interests.
Noelle Dalipe
Noelle Dalipe is a senior at Washington High School. She was born and raised in California, and this will be her first year working with the WHS Hatchet. Her focus is on Washington’s ASB/leadership class and music critique. She has also worked with the WHS Washingtonian for 2 years, and believes her skills with working on the yearbook translates easily to journalism. Outside of The Hatchet, she is a varsity cheerleading captain and loves to cheer, dance, and stunt. Outside of school, you can find her listening to music, working as a swim instructor, and making plans with her friends. After high school, she plans to attend college and pursue both film and psychology.
Natalie Wong
Natalie Wong is a senior at Washington High school and has lived in Fremont her whole life. She hopes to spend her first year at the Hatchet covering local news regarding student interests and producing creative crosswords & games for the newspaper. Some of her hobbies include dancing, helping out with her family’s bakery, and trying new things that spark her interests! Natalie is a part of Washington High School’s water polo and swim teams. She strives to attend a good university and aspires to become an optometrist in the future!
Malcolm McKane
Malcolm McKane is a junior at Washington High School, and this is his first year working at The Hatchet. Malcolm was born in Hayward but has been raised in Fremont for his entire life. He is currently the political columnist and his beat is in the WHS Academics. Outside of school, he enjoys running, Taekwondo, drumming, and playing basketball. He plans to attend university in Scotland and achieve a major in history.
Kaylee Khong
Kaylee Khong is a current Senior at Washington High School and has resided in Fremont for all her life. It is currently her first year working for the Hatchet, and is specifically working on features and also is in charge of creating ads and fundraisers for the newspaper. For fun, Kaylee loves to go on coffee runs, spend time with family and friends, cook, and binge watch movies. After high school, Kaylee plans on attending a college and majoring in nursing to hopefully become an oncology nurse. She is excited for senior year and even more excited to help contribute to the Hatchet!
Kashvi Butail
Kashvi Butail is a senior at Washington High School, and this is her first year on The Hatchet. She has lived in Fremont her whole life. On the paper, she works on the admin beat and helps with social media. In her free time, she enjoys dancing, bedazzling, and shopping. After high school, Kashvi plans to study psychology and pursue a career in the field.
Joseph Mirabal
Joseph Mirabal is a senior at Washington High School who was born and raised in Fremont, California. This is his first year working on The Hatchet, where he will be covering Sports and Health, as well as contributing to the weekly Teacher Feature and The Hatchet's Sports Podcast. Joseph is also the kicker and punter for Washingtons Varsity Football Team. Outside of school he enjoys golfing, working out, and listening to music. In the future, he hopes to earn a Divsion 1 football scholarship and continue playing at the collegiate level while pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering. He hopes to attend and play football at either Cal Poly or the University of Texas.
Izzy Chappell
Izzy Chappell, a senior at Washington High School, moved to Fremont from Union City in 2015. This is her first year working for the Hatchet, and she is reporting mainly on the library, as she seems to always be in there anyways, looking for a new book to read. She is also responsible for the crossword puzzle and games page. She is a varsity water polo player and swimmer at Washington, as well as a competitive horseback rider. If that weren’t enough, she is also a camp counselor at several Girl Scout camps and spends all the rest of her time reading and writing. After high school, Izzy hopes to major in Creative Writing in college and write fantasy novels like the ones that she always has her nose buried in.
Grace Spivey
Grace Spivey is currently a junior at Washington High School. She has lived in Fremont, California her whole life. In journalism, she covers Washington athletics as well as working with the school's social media and videos. After school, she currently plays on the varsity girls water polo team, and will race for the swim team in the spring. In her free time she enjoys listening to music, watching movies, and going out with her friends. In the future, she plans to continue her education in college with a major in education.
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Erin Unsworth
Erin Unsworth is a Junior at Washington highschool. She was born and raised in Fremont, California. This is her first year working on the hatchet and she is very excited to cover all new topics this year. This year she will be covering movies and students opinions. She has a passion for all kinds of music and performing arts and hopes to cover some of those topics this year. After high school she plans to attend San Jose State and study child psychology.
Corey Stewart
Corey Michio Stewart is a junior at Washington High School. He was born in Redwood City, but grew up in Fremont. This is his first year working for The Hatchet. Corey will be covering the Art category, ranging from Culinary, to, Digital Video Arts, and Digital Imaging. In his freetime, Corey enjoys producing music, photography, and videography. One of his favorite past-times is going to concerts and recording them & taking pictures of the artist performing. After High School, Corey plans to keep producing music, & venturing on to college.
Ayesha Khurram
Ayesha Khurram is currently a senior at Washington Highschool and was born and lived in Fremont her whole life. This is her first year working with The Hatchet and she is part of the Arts & Entertainment section and also makes comics for the newspaper as her extra job. Out of school and in her free time, Ayesha enjoys making trinkets like pins and keychains of her interests and is also passionate in drawing. Her future goal is to be more involved with fashion and hopes to go to Parsons someday.
Arshdeep Kaur
Arshdeep Kaur is a junior at Washington. She has lived in 3 different countries but spent the majority of her life in Fremont. This is her first year working for the Hatchet, she is a reporter at large and is an advice columnist. In her free time she enjoys reading books, spending time outdoors and being crafty. She wants to pursue BME at UCSD.
Anika Kapoor
Anika Kapoor grew up in Fremont, California, and is a member of the school newspaper staff. This year, she covers counselors as her journalism beat and also works on features, creates advertisements, and helps with fundraising for the newspaper. Outside of journalism, Anika is involved in competitive dance, WHS TAAL, DECA, and lacrosse. In her free time, she loves getting coffee, going on random side quests with her friends, teaching dance, and spending time with the people she cares about. After high school, she plans to attend college and study business while continuing to explore her interests in leadership, marketing, and creativity.
Adeena Ahmadzai
Adeena is a junior at Washington high school. She started journalism this year, and is working on the opinions column and the art beat. She was born and raised in Fremont. Her hobbies include art, creative writing, and reading. She also plays the cello, and loves to listen to music. In the future, Adeena wants to travel the world and learn how to snowboard.
Abhinav Bomma
Abhinav Bomma is currently a senior and is in his first year of journalism. He covers the College and Careers beat and works on the newspaper’s website. Born and raised in Fremont, California, Abhinav is interested in business and technology. Outside the newsroom, he enjoys playing basketball and coding. After high school, Abhinav hopes to become a business consultant and eventually live in Miami, New York, or Los Angeles.
Aarna Sripada
Aarna is a junior at Washington High School, and this is her first year with the Hatchet. She was born in Connecticut and raised in Fremont, California. Currently, she is covering academics and will also be focusing on the DVAP collaboration with journalism this year. She is also interested in covering news and events happening around the school, including different activities and stories that highlight the school community. Outside of journalism, Aarna is a member of the girls tennis team and enjoys spending time with friends, reading, and listening to music. She also volunteers with Hooves for Harmony, a nonprofit that provides horse therapy for children with special needs. Through her volunteering, she has developed a passion for working with children with special needs. After high school, Aarna hopes to attend college, travel around the world, and pursue a career in law. She also hopes to continue working with children with special needs and find a way to combine both of these interests in the future.
Alex Jeung
Alex HyunBin Jeung is a senior at Washington Highschool. He is a Fremont CA Native and this is his first year of working for the Hatchet and he could not be more excited. He will be covering students' opinions this year and plans on doing a terrific job. Alex loves hanging out with his friends, playing golf, and watching UFC. Alex said that his future plans are to become an astronaut and experience zero gravity and fly.
Idrees Ansari
Idrees Ansari is a student at Washington High School who grew up in Fremont, California. He has been working for the school newspaper for 1 year, where he enjoys doing interviews and covering stories for the school community. Outside of journalism, Idrees enjoys video editing, running his YouTube channel, and creating videos as a YouTuber. He hopes to continue improving his journalism and video-editing skills and pursue his interests in media and content creation in the future.
Bryan Bullock
Bryan Bullock is currently a senior at Washington Highschool. He grew up in Fremont, California, and this is his first year in the school paper and he focuses on WHS athletics. As the quarterback for the school he is really engaged in the latest sports news. He plans on sharing the latest sports news. He plans on playing football and being involved in sports in college.
Hayato Takamatsu
Hayato Takamatsu is a first-year journalism student who grew up in Massachusetts. This year, he covers student life. Outside of school, Hayato enjoys playing video games, going hiking, and working on creative side projects. In the future, he plans to pursue a career in either sales or finance.
Peyton Romero
Peyton Romero grew up in Oakland, California, and is currently in his first year of journalism. He covers Student Life and participates in the Teacher Feature segment. Outside of journalism, Peyton is a member of the baseball team and enjoys hobbies such as golfing, going to the movies, and spending time with his friends and family. In the future, he hopes to become a sports agent.
Christian Magana
Nico Magana is currently a senior at Washington High school. Nico was born in Hayward, CA and raised here in Fremont. This is his first year working with the school newspaper and he focuses on on and off campus ROP and makes videos for the WHS Hatchet social media. Nico enjoys both playing and coaching soccer. As for hobbies, he enjoys collecting cards, watching sports, video games, and hiking. In the future he hopes to continue playing soccer at the collegiate level and pursue a career in something sporting related.
Aiyonna Gaines
Aiyonna Gaines is a senior at WHS. She grew up mostly in Union City and moved to Fremont in 2022. This is her first year at The Hatchet, and she will be covering the clubs around the school and different types of art students create as her extra duty. She has loved baking ever since she was little and also enjoys cooking. She likes to paint and do all kinds of creative things, she also enjoys doing yoga for fun and to clear her mind. Her future plans include attending a community college in California and later transferring to a UC. She wants to major in nursing and become a pediatric nurse because she is very family-oriented and has a passion for helping kids.
Christopher Naraval
Christopher Naraval is a senior at Washington High School. He was born in Hayward and grew up mostly in Fremont with his grandparents. This is Christopher’s first year working with The Hatchet and he’s currently writing about experiences in ROP classes. He’s going into his second year playing varsity baseball and also enjoys playing golf and video games in his free time. After high school he hopes to continue playing baseball at De Anza College and major in sports management.
Isaiah Castaneda Castillo
King George Isaiah Castaneda is currently a senior at Washington High School. He grew up in East San Jose and this will be his first year doing Journalism. He covers what goes on in the classroom and also the podcast. His hobbies are football, basketball and baseball. His plans for the future is to either go to San Mateo community college and continue football or Ohlone and do IT.
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