meet the staff
Annie Gleydura: Annie is this year’s A Magazine editor-in-chief! She is a senior Fashion merchandising major with minors in Fashion Media and Creative Writing. Her fashion icon is Clara Perlmutter also known as TinyJewishGirl on tiktok. She joined Amag as a creative outlet to express her passions of fashion and writing.
Maddie Letourneau: Maddie is a senior fashion merchandising major, and she is A Magazine’s managing editor. Her current fashion icon is Julia Fox. Maddie joined A Mag because she wanted to be a part of a community that fully embraces new ideas, creativity, and, most of all, the ever-evolving world of fashion.
Kayla Friedman: Kayla is one of A Magazine’s assistant editors. She is a fashion merchandising major with minors in fashion media and graphic design. She joined A Magazine because writing brings her so much joy and she wanted to share her voice. Kayla’s fashion icon is 90s Jennifer Aniston because her outfits screamed “it girl” and will never go out of style.
Finora Reilly: Finora is a senior fashion merchandising major with minors in fashion media and textiles. She works as another one of A Magazine’s assistant editors. Her fashion icon is Monica Geller from Friends. Finora joined A Mag to improve her writing and editing skills and meet other fashion majors.
Abby Wilson: Abby, a senior fashion design major, is A Magazine’s art director. Her current fashion icon is definitely Matilda Djerf. Abby joined A Mag because she’s a passionate illustrator and has loved art and fashion since she was a little girl.
Ally Freidly: Ally is a junior fashion merchandising major with minors in fashion media and photography. Ally works as our photo editor here at A Magazine. Her style icons range from Paul Jason Klein (frontman of the band LANY) to any look of Julia Roberts’ or Cindy Crawford’s from the 90s. Ally hopes to become an editorial and music photographer for magazines or bands when she graduates. She joined A Mag to express her love for creative storytelling and has felt at home ever since.
Regan Simpson: Regan is a sophomore fashion merchandising student working as A Magazine’s Web Editor. Her fashion icons at the moment are Gracie Abrams and Emma Chamberlain because of their girly and timeless style. She loves A Mag because of her love of writing and the wide variety of content they create and support.
Emma Joffrion: Emma is our Style Director and a fifth year BFA fashion design student with an accessories and jewelry minor. Emma is from Shreveport, Louisiana and came to Kent to pursue fashion, she has been a part of A Mag’s styling team since fall 2019 when she found A Mags booth at Blastoff and fell in love. She says that she wanted to be involved in a fashion magazine on campus, and since then she’s been a stylist for five years and the style director for two. Her style icons are Alexa Demie, Petra Collins, Dua Lipa, and Kacey Musgraves.
Kelsey Smith: Kelsey is A Magazine’s social media director. She is a sophomore fashion merchandising major. Her favorite fashion icon is Wisdom Kaye because of his uniqueness and personality in style and photography. Kelsey joined A Mag because she loves the content we create and the dynamic of our team. She says our team has the most wonderful and creative personalities that blend in a perfect way.
Sarah Reed: Sarah is a senior fashion merchandising major with double minors in entrepreneurship and fashion media, and she is A Magazine’s promotions director. Her celeb fashion icon is Harry Styles, but she loves following anyone who can style athleisure. She joined A Mag to be surrounded by amazing humans who love working together to create something amazing.
Ariane Robinson: Ariane, a junior fashion merchandising major with a fashion media minor, is A Magazine’s diversity committee director. Her current style icons are Zendaya and Aliyah Bah. Ariane joined A Mag because she fell in love with the magazine’s mission of inclusivity and how people of all shapes, sizes and skin tones are equally celebrated. She says that at A Mag, you can really feel that everyone is special and she believes that is an important message to share.
