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Past Interns - CHIP and The Santiago Times
Browse the long list of interns who have dedicated themselves to growing and improving The Chile Information Project throughout the years.
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Marc Hamel - Photographer/Photo Editor, The Santiago Times
Marc is currently a graduate student studying photojournalism at the University of Texas, Austin.
A native of Denver, Co., he graduated from Marquette University with a marketing and advertising degree. After a year of fun in Colorado, he started his marketing career in Denver and then moved to the Bay Area where he worked for several companies including Sega Entertainment, Mattel Interactive and interactive firm Fluid, Inc.
In 2002 Marc left San Francisco and Golden Gate Park behind and headed to Nicaragua as a Peace Corps volunteer. His primary assignment was to work with an organization managing the Cerro Musun nature reserve, located in central Nicaragua. He spent two years
teaching environmental education, teaching art class, building trails, and generally wandering in the jungle.
If he's not making pictures you will probably find him doing something outside, and most likely it will be running or cycling.
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Anna Kendrick - Writer, The Santiago Times
Anna Kendrick comes to the Santiago Times from Boston, Massachusetts, where she is a sophomore History and Literature major at Harvard University. After going to college three subway stops from her home, Anna decided that some time down in the southern hemisphere might be the best way to spend her first summer in college. Her interest in Latin America brought her to Santiago, Chile, where she is excited to explore its old neighborhoods, eat fresh fruits and empanadas and practice her Spanish (or rather, learn Chilean).
On the weekends, she hopes to venture out of the city to enjoy clean air, attempt to learn to ski, and find out just how cold the Pacific Ocean really is in the winter. While at the Santiago Times, she will be interviewing local business owners and writing profiles for the online newspaper.
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Matt Malinowksi - Writer, The Santiago Times
While residing in the traditionally Catholic country of Chile, Matt Malinowski is best described as a hedonistic heretic headed for hell. Little Matt swapped the Bible for the Lonely Planet and the Ten Commandments for the aphorism that, "the world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page," at a young age and he has never looked back. But, don't excommunicate this guy just yet-for his saving grace is that it was Saint Augustine who first pronounced those guiding words! After having visited a myriad of countries from China to Canada, Matt arrived Chile in July, 2005 to spend his junior year abroad. Nevertheless, it took him until April to get his act together and join the Santiago Times. Matt brings an unquenchable desire to both improve his writing and have fun, and he is grateful to be part of the team.
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Alex Ogle - Writer, The Santiago Times/CHIP Travel
Alex stumbled into the Santiago Times in the same way you might fall down the stairs with hands in your pockets. Indeed, he would never have set foot south of the US border were it not for the wily charms of a vagrant New Orleans dancer, but that's another story. Steve rejected his copy-editing skills many times but finally yielded under the weight of requests. Alex was soon questioning his own short-sighted planning as he found himself sleeping at the office, nestled under four sleeping bags in the ice-cold shack in the back, waking with icicles in his hair. But hey, buy the ticket, take the ride: there's a heat-wave currently melting drizzle from the shores of his native England, but can they see the Andes from their office windows?
Alex enjoys fumbling away with stunted Spanish, poking degenerate streets dogs, and late night walks through smog-soaked Santiago. When not feeding dodgy translations into his news copy, he alternates between humming unintelligible half-seconds of songs and forcing fellow writers into uncomfortably deep conversations at inappropriate moments. Alex looks forward to returning to London to take on a journalism MA at City University.
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Pascal Tieman - Tour Guide, CHIP Travel
Pascal is the Tour Coordinator at CHIP Travel. He was raised in the city of Tilburg, Netherlands, close to the Belgian border. He studied marketing and came to Chile in September 2000, following his heart and a beautiful Chilean woman. He is now married to her and they have two children.
In Chile he worked for Marriott Hotel and currently guides Saturday tours for the Colchagua Wine Train or Tren del vino. During the week he works as a tour guide and travel coordinator for The Chile Information Project.
Ask Pascal about tours, travel, lodging or transport. Email him here: tours@chiptravel.cl.
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Sarah Dingle - The Santiago Times
Sarah is an intern at The Santiago Times. The rest of the time, she's an Australian journalism student studying in Chile for the year.
Sarah has written or worked for, among others, the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC Radio National, 2SER radio, Vibewire.net, Reportage, FBi radio, the St George Leader, the North Shore Times and the City Hub.
She likes making radio, playing capoeira, Santiago in the summertime and the price of avocadoes in Chile.
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Ana Maria de la Fuente - The Santiago Times
Ana Maria was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and has come to Santiago after earning a degree in Literature and teaching English in Japan.
She has worked as a Adminstrative and Editoral assistant at Edmonton´s Vue Weekly as well as tour guide, English tutor and waiter.
She is currently interning at the Santiago Times to further explore the journalism, and live in her father's native land.
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Fernando Martinez Bravo - The Santiago Times
Fernando Martinez Bravo was born in the city of Puerto Montt in the south of the world. There, surrounded by lakes, volcanoes, and curanto he was inspired to begin experimenting with photography. Eventually he moved north to study Publicity and Photography in Valparaiso. (Unfortunately the first nude model presented to him was not a goddess, but instead a wrinkly old woman of extremely generous proportions).
Recently he gave in and moved to the congested capital he had been avoiding for so long in order to complete his studies. At this moment, he works at the Santiago Times as a photographer.
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Catherine Housholder - The Santiago Times
Born and raised in a tiny town in northeast Indiana, Catherine Housholder decided to head to Massachusetts for college (at an all-women's school!) and major in Latin American studies.
After three summers of working at local dailies in Indiana, she opted to fly south to Chile to write for The Santiago Times and chase politicians around the city.
She enjoys being liberated from the all-female environment at school and feeling independent in a big city. Since coming to Santiago, she thinks writing about the powerful may be her calling.
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Lisa Hirschmann - The Santiago Times
Lisa Hirschmann was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Just a year ago she crossed the country to attend Columbia University in New York City, where she studies Spanish and Latin America, and writes for the university daily newspaper, The Columbia Spectator.
Last semester she covered an academic freedom controversy in Columbia's Middle Eastern Studies department for the Spectator, and won the Reed Strauss Award for "exceptional talent in journalism" for her work.
After traveling to Chile in the summer of 2004 to study, she fell in love with the country and knew she had to come back.
She spent her summer break in 2005 working as an intern at The Santiago Times, before heading back to New York to start her sophomore year of college. She loves learning Chilean idioms, futbol and pastel de choclo.
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Nina Vizcarrondo - The Santiago Times
Though Nina grew up amidst the hustle and bustle of New York City, she has found Santiago to be an even more overwhelming city - but one that has, so far, pushed her to absorb and integrate an influx of experiences, history and current events that she hopes will soon help her yield ultimate wisdom and nirvana.
In the big apple, Nina spent 13 years trudging up and down the 10 flights of the all-girls Spence School, where, when not too exhausted, she helped put out the student opinion magazine, *spark.
Nina came to the Santiago Times, however, straight from Harvard, where, after a semester rowing on the Charles, she spent a good deal of her freshman year paying her dues at The Crimson (thecrimson.com), singing in the freshman musical and enjoying her peers.
She has also been nothing but impressed by her co-workers at The Santiago Times and at the scope of its coverage, especially after a summer "interning" at El Diario de Zapotlan in rural Mexico, which had one reporter on staff.
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Stephanie Berlin - The Santiago Times
Born and bred in the boggy lowlands of Northern Germany, Stephanie found a meaningful existence by selling fish, lugging stones for conservation projects, and freezing her feet off in Greenlandic meltwaters before finishing her master's degree in Urban Planning and completing her teacher training at Muenster University. After teaching German at High
Schools in Scotland and working with the Planning Department in Glasgow on a regeneration project in the city's post-industrial east end, she spent some time roaming the forests and counting deer as an intern in Killarney National Park, Ireland.
Stephanie makes her home in Vancouver now and works as a German instructor at the University of British Columbia. Still torn between two continents, she opted for a third one instead, leaving the sunny beaches of Vancouver behind to spend the summer holidays in wintery and smog-ridden Santiago. She is getting more and more caffeine-hyped thanks to her café-hopping Spanish class and enjoys the beat of the first South American city she got to know. Her internship with The Santiago Times is her first journalistic experience. It might distract her completely from her future as a teacher, at least for a little while.
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Muireann Prendergast - The Santiago Times
Muireann Prendergast was born in Ireland and is 25 years old. She studied Philosophy and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin and later completed and MA in International Communications and Human Rights at City Univeristy, London.
She has written for the Buenos Aires Herald and The Irish Times, and is also features editor of a bi-lingual, French and English, Paris-based magazine called Aspire & Emerge.
She came to The Santiago Times to write about human rights issues in Chile.
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Natalia Hernández - The Santiago Times
Natalia is a Chilean journalist who was inspired to work in English after spending an incredible semester studying abroad in Canada. Dreams can come true there, she says, and hopes that some day they will come true for her here in Chile. Or maybe some day she'll return to Canada?
A Harry Potter fanatic (really, ask her anything about the books), she came into the Santiago Times one cold morning in July after driving by the office en route to her grandparents' house. "Why not?" she said.
Natalia now divides her time between The Santiago Times and a Chilean magazine. She is also rehearsing for her "almost" band and cracking icons on Photoshop. Oh, and hopes to bring Tori Amos to Chile. A busy lady, indeed.
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Chris Evans - The Santiago Times
Despite an aversion to big cities, Chris has lived and worked in London, Sydney and now Santiago. He has worked for several years as a journalist at various prestigious titles, including The Times, The Kensington Times, Sydney Morning Herald, and some rather depressingly dull ones, including World Insurance Report and Accountancy magazine. He has the dubious distinction of being one of the only members of the team to have experienced the 1970s, although, sadly too young to wear corduroy flares.
He has an insatiable appetite for all sports, but especially football (of the English variety, not the bizarre American game where they "throw" the ball). His dream to play professionally is turning sour as each year passes, and the realization sinks in that he is getting old enough to be the dad of some of the current players. Instead he occupies his days writing stories and attempting to communicate with the locals, but often being greeted with blank stares, or looks of astonishment at the giant standing before them (Chris is officially a giant standing at 2 meters tall).
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Zachary McKiernan - The Santiago Times
A 26-year-old native Californian. When not taking 5,000-mile road trips between California and Panama, Zach enjoys coffee, crosswords, scholarships, and snowboarding. He arrived in Santiago, for the second time, to study at Santiago's Jesuit University, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Somehow, he has since landed himself in the chaos that shrouds the Santiago Times.
To unwind, Zach indulges in some of Santiago's most distinguishable delights: completos and piscolas. Besides these tasty treats, the ubiquitous smog and deplorable Nescafé of Santiago keeps him teary eyed for the bluer skies of his native land, California. After visiting nearly thirty countries, Zach, jack of all trades and master of none, still doesn't know where he'll be next year.
Hopefully, a Ph.D. program in History or Latin American Studies will come knocking on his door, but, this dumb boy with a dream (Ed. Note: Zach has since proved himself to be a dumb boy with several dreams) could just as likely take refuge in the jungles of Guatemala or pampas of Argentina.
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Victor Pino - Travel Director
Victor worked in the tourism industry before joining the CHIP Travel Guide in October 1997. He's been happy with his job, which has allowed him to travel up and down the length of Chile several times. His extensive travels notwithstanding, Victor notes that each time he revisits a location, he always discovers something new.
Victor puts his knowledge to good use at CHIP, helping work out the travel plans for the many individuals and groups that ask for our help in making all their travel arrangements in Chile.
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Will Osmond - Travel Staff
Born in France near Paris, Will was raised in the USA when his familly moved to follow the flourishing markets of the New World. A trilingual administration student at Universidad de Chile, Will began working for CHIP as a Tour Guide in 2001, favouring the City Cultural Walk-tours and the *hic* Wine Tours.
He was later taken on to work in the Sales Department in 2003, but still delights in herding curious tourists through the busy Santiago streets, unraveling it’s wonders and splendor. Outside of work and study, Will teaches both English and French; enjoys jogging, writing, singing and plays the Piano.
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Rafe Hutchings - Business Development
Rafe hails from Somerset in the U.K. He suffers from LatinAmericaitis, having had the good fortune to have lived in several of its countries. Having completed a degree in Economics and later a masters in Information Systems, he chose to broaden his business experience in CHIP's "hands on" environment.
He keeps busy by touching up on his Spanish and Portuguese, as well as persisting with his salsa dancing. He has an excessive love of rugby, and enjoys the outdoors and current affairs.
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Gabriela Dorr Spoerer - Travel Staff
Gabriela "Guagua" Dorr was born in Concepción but only after a few months on Earth, she moved to Curico, in the central region of Chile, where she went through elementary, middle and high school.
Like all good country girls, she decided to try her luck in the big city: Santiago. That's where she studied Graphic Design for six months, but left due to the smog, noisy streets and insane drivers.
Fleeing back to Curico, she settled down once more, employing herself in a vast array of odd jobs. Then, when she least expected it, a revelation came to Guagua. She discovered a very interesting career, her true calling...Tourism! (or so thought)
When Guagua isn't looking for her destiny, she enjoys sleeping or partying with the girls, chatting away about the birds and the bees.
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Marcelo Cid - The Santiago Times
Marcelo was born in Santiago and has lived his whole life gagging in its smog. He is currently earning two majors at Uniacc University: audiovisual communications and journalism.
Although Marcelo has had hands-on experience working at El Mercurio, Chile Films, the Nueva Imagen TV company, and as an editor, news writer and TV announcer at Uniacc's Channel 34, he was pleased to become an intern at The Santiago Times in order to improve his English writing skills. His aim to become truly bilingual.
His likes are varied and oftentimes contradictory. For example, he likes both pop and classical music; avant-garde movies and Star Wars. And his conversation tends towards the philosophical and sometimes religious.
His presence, as well as that of other Chileans on the Santiago Times team, is important because it helps the whole crew get a better understanding of all the contradictions found both in Chile and the rest of the world.
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Mark Niesse - The Santiago Times
A resident of Atlanta, Georgia, all his life, Mark decided in early 2004 that the time had come to really see some of the rest of the world and learn another language - even if it meant leaving behind a good job as a journalist with the Associated Press and heading for parts unknown. His friends understood, although his family expressed some doubts.
His three and a half years of experience with AP has been a plus to The Santiago Times, where he was well received by a group of comrades in arms, and put immediately to the grindstone. Although linguistically challenged, Mark has made remarkable (?) strides with his Spanish in just a few short months, and will no doubt venture to greener pastures once his internship ends.
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Randy Havre - The Santiago Times - Financial Columnist
Randy Havre has been a financial writer in Hawaii for 17 years, reporting on and analyzing publicly traded companies.
After graduating from the prestigious Hawaiian prep school, Punahou, much to his parent's disapproval, Randy took off traveling the mainland from Guatemala City to Fairbanks Alaska.
Upon returning to paradise he join the Honolulu Fire Department spending six of his nine years there as a Rescue Specialist. Realizing that he needed money to live, as paradise is quite costly, he left to open his own stock brokerage firm, and the rest is history.
Randy and his beautiful wife, Spanish/Filipino, have a 23 year old daughter, also beautiful. They are avid skiers, at least 30 ski days a year, which brought them to Chile. In Hawaii, you¹ll find him most weekend mornings at Sandy Beach body surfing.
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Emily Byrne, Cultural Editor - The Santiago Times
Educated at posh English public schools and Cambridge University, Emily is taking a glimpse of the "real world." Following a stint working for an HIV/AIDS organization in Burkina Faso, she is roughing it at The Santiago Times for a while.
Among others, Emily's previous occupations include barmaid, singer, envelope - stuffer, audio typist in a law firm, police line-up participant and brain scan volunteer.
Emily was editor of a Cambridge University magazine, and has had a few poems published. She enjoys singing, G & Ts, being invited to Embassy parties and bizarre English sports that no one apart from Tom has heard of.
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Heather Cashmore - The Santiago Times
Born in the dank redbrick depths of Manchester (sorry Tom), Heather later moved to the greener pastures of Bristol where she learned to love all things west country. However, being a secret lover of misery (like all the English) she decided to move to Aberystwyth, an isolated and drizzly coastal town in mid-Wales to study International Politics and Spanish, later spending a year of study in the Basque Country in 2003.
The glamorous lifestyle and pay of a waitress, events organizer, and lifeguard allowed her to return to Santiago, having been inspired five years before by el mundo chileno during a gap year. Heather hopes to gain an understanding of the journalistic profession through her internship at The Santiago Times, as well as exploring Chilean culture and improving her Spanish. She also plays the guitar, loves photography, swimming, surfing and being in the fresh air (the latter proving a little difficult in Santiago, but we can't have everything …).
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Olga Cherepanova - Marketing
Olga was born in Russia and educated in the United States. She studied business administration and marketing and took a master's in international development (yes, she wants to make the world a better place). She wound up at CHIP after a stint with a mammoth multinational energy company.
She loves the Andes and has discovered she is a gifted wine taster. She enjoys history, reading, dancing salsa and samba, the great outdoors, skiing and skating (the latter hampered by a complete absence of ice).
Her life here is spent switching back and forth between the four languages she speaks - English, Spanish, Portuguese and, lest she forget, Russian. Even after having lived in different countries she does fix a mean vodka drink. Her next life challenge is to learn to fly a helicopter.
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Irene Caselli, Editor in Chief - The Santiago Times
Irene was born in Naples, Southern Italy, in 1981 and lived in the chaos of the Mediterranean city for 18 years. She then studied International Relations and German in St. Andrews, Scotland, and Bonn, Germany. After graduating in June 2003, Irene decided it was time to leave Europe, and, thanks to her brother, ended up in Chile to find inspiration. The Santiago Times has helped a bit so far, proving that journalism might be the right way. What she hopes for in future are new countries, other languages and more words to write down. If she ever can shake loose from The Santiago Times.
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David Seitel, Sports - The Santiago Times
Sports guy hails from the planet of sport. His motto is "Just Do It" and his favorite beverage, beside beer, is Gatorade. Much to the lazy man's astonishment, SG (as his teammates like to say), enjoys various things like watching sports, talking about sports, and writing about sports.
It is for the latter that SP has found a spot in the Santiago Times staff. With much practice at sports, Sports Guy knows everything from vulgar chants and mosh-pits, to the grace and elegance of a soccer goal.
Although you can only contain (not stop!) him, Sports Guy has a weakness like his idol Jim Thorpe. This ultra-talented individual of sport is allergic to reading and classical music, unless there are hot chicks and complementary chips.
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Cristina Cifuentes - The Santiago Times
Cristina was born in Santiago a long time ago. After graduating from the the University of Santiago, one of Chile's most upstart universities, she went to Scarborough, in the North of England to learn English for about a year. She then went to Edinburgh, Scotland, to work on a master’s in journalism and ended up staying there three years.
What she did during that time is still a bit of a mystery. Sources say she may have had problems with the law, but nothing has been proved yet.
In Chile she has worked for the film magazine Cinegrama, and back in Edinburgh she worked for the Scotsman and the only Spanish-language radio show in Scotland, a project she is still involved in.
She is a strong supporter of Universidad de Chile soccer club and enjoys fencing, photography, travelling and the taste of a good Chilean wine.
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Tania Rusque The Santiago Times
Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, with a two-year hiatus in a teensy weensy town in Italy called Lanciano (long story), Tania feels blessed to be living in a country that does not require her to brave minus-30-degree temperatures. As an International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies graduate from the University of Toronto, she takes an interest in socio-political issues and is intent on putting her journalistic skills to the test as she documents the progress of Chile's rapid socio-economic transition.
As a testament to her love for the English language, Tania also teaches private English-as-a-foreign-language classes (in case anybody is interested - and yes, I am taking advantage of free publicity).
As the daughter of a Chileno, Tania is interested in spending her stay in Chile learning about her cultural roots. She also intends to consume much Latin American literature and pastel de choclo.
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Jade Frank The Santiago Times
Jade was born and raised in the frozen land of Fairbanks, Alaska. She's in her final year at the University of Alaska, majoring in photojournalism. She came to The Santiago Times to practice her skills in writing, photography and Spanish as an intern. Her passion for learning Spanish stems from a high school exchange to Quito, Ecuador, and a college exchange to Guadalajara, Mexico. However, she is having a little trouble deciphering the Chilean dialect.
Jade's dream is to buy a catamaran and sail around the world scuba-diving, eating seafood, taking photos and writing books about her experiences. She founded Chile's first official Stitch n' Bitch, a knitting club for progressive women. When not in the office or out taking photos, you can find her searching for great sushi restaurants and live music.
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Katie Reilly The Santiago Times
Although a graduate of a small liberal arts college located in the woods of Maine, Katie has her roots in Washington, D.C., where she was born and grew up. While at college she spent a semester studying in Chile, an experience she valued greatly.
So it was no surprise that after graduating she decided, somewhat spontaneously, to return to Chile to see what it could offer. And the fist interesting possibility that caught her attention was interning at The Santiago Times.
So far, she says it has been a pretty good decision to come to Chile, although she wishes she had more opportunities to play soccer. Before she heads back to DC, Katie hopes to improve her journalistic skills, her Spanish (and Chilean slang) and to travel and learn as much as possible.
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Lisa Ljunggren The Santiago Times
Born on a Lappish mountain top in 1979, this Aquarius has been trying to crawl her way to the ocean ever since. By struggling through chlorine filled puddles, both as an active swimmer and as a determined coach, her restlessness (and the fact that she doesn't really like children) led her to seek new adventures.
Lisa (which also happens to be the name given to an IKEA waste basket) has spent three years in Art School, six months in the Mexican jungle and once managed to shock an audience with her outstanding pantomime interpretation of the depraved queen in Snow White.
While not writing for the Santiago Times, she enjoys the meditative chaos of the Chilean capital city, strolling around barefoot and staring off into the distance while trying to figure out a plan on how best to save the world.
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Maria Roeckmann Web Content Manager
Maria escaped the cruel German winter in an effort to get a beautiful tan on Chile's beaches. And to join the CHIP team, of course! Before coming to Chile, she studied education and social psychology in Bochum, an industrial town in the Ruhr area. After graduation, she decided it would be a good idea to get some practical experience in Chile and brush up on her Spanish in the process.
"Being in Chile is the best way to learn Spanish," she says, adding that it's "also perhaps the hardest way to learn, because the people here speak so fast."
At The Santiago Times she is working to update the content on various CHIP websites. When she gets back to Germany she'd like to work as an online journalist or continue with work as a web site content manager. But for just now, she's happy enjoying the wonderful weather, beaches, trekking, and lots of wine.
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Catalina Garreton - The Santiago Times
Catalina is an Americana-Chilena who has lived across the States, from Seattle to North Carolina. While studying Art and Journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill, she was involved in an incredible documentary project that took her to Punta Arenas, Chile in the spring of 2003.
After graduating in 2004, she itched to return the land of avocados and piscolas, to spend time with her wonderful family, soak up and understand Chilean culture and to learn all she can as a photojournalist and writer at The Santiago Times. While not pursuing her passions in documentary journalism, photography and painting, she focuses on her other passion: dancing, whether in Chapel Hill, Paris, or now the colorful discos of Bellavista.
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Tom Burgis, Cultural Review Editor - The Santiago Times
Tom grew up in Manchester, UK, in the shadow of Old Trafford. He came to Santiago after four years of living in boxes and studying literature in London, and three months braving the wilds of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.
He has worked as a bookie, a manual laborer, a barman, a letter writer for the British Government and a model for medical demonstrations.
Tom has been the arts editor of a student magazine, a reporter for the Sunday Telegraph and has published several poems. He is a guitar player of dubious merit, a keen footballer, a voracious reader and an explorer of Santiago's seedy underbelly.
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Cosmogirl - Santiago Times
Cosmogirl, our resident Culture Review Editor and Sex Columnist, was born in the indecorous city of Hartford, CT in 1981, and much to her adolescent dismay, grew up in the scenic countryside of North Guilford. At the sparkling age of 18 she left Hickville and moved to New York City, where she studied English at Barnard College, and mastered the arts of walking home in stilettos and getting out of Brooklyn at 3 am.
As a temporary Manhattanite, she launched her journalism career with a saucy stint in the dubious “Books” department at Cosmopolitan magazine, followed by a less scandalous internship with the art editor at The New Yorker. She’s also studied in Paris – ooh la la. She landed in Chile, sin tacones, in September 2003. Luckily, she’s has found a place to combine her penchant for the written word, urban know-how, culture savviness and Dear Abby cheekiness at The Santiago Times.
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Juan Torres - Travel Staff
Juan began working with CHIP Travel in late 2001. He organizes all of the company's day tours, and leads several of them, including the cultural trips around Santiago and the trips to the port city of Valparaiso and to Neruda's home on Isla Negra.
When not busy at CHIP, Juan enjoys playing ping pong or practicing his English, over a beer, with local ex pats.
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Talia Goodkin - Santiago Times
Talia was born and raised in San Francisco, California where she enjoyed 17 glorious years of walks in Golden Gate Park, lots of tofu, the best of the bay's both bohemian and yuppy sides, the joys of having two teachers (art and music) as parents, and lots and lots of fog. She headed east to Tufts University in Boston where she has been studying for the last two years. She is enjoying a semester abroad here in Santiago, travelling all over Chile, lots of "carrete", saying cachai, hueyon, and si'po ten times fast, eating lots of empanadas... and of course, learning Spanish and "studying."
She's majoring in History with a focus on Latin America and minoring in Child Development. Yes, she has accepted the fact that these concentrations will propel her into a world full of either unemployment or jobs with such insignificant pay that she might as well be unemployed. She enjoys sports, dancing, writing, Bush-bashing, cooking and eating good food, and lots of travelling.
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Saritha Komatireddy - Santiago Times
Though born in Brooklyn, Saritha Komatireddy spent most of her childhood in the true heartland of America — the small midwestern town of Columbia, Missouri. She enjoys traveling, dancing, tinkering with technology, learning new languages, and doing random spontaneous things.
Saritha is currently playing it cool in Boston, where she is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying government at Harvard University.
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Dan Wagner - Santiago Times
Dan Wagner is from the flat plains of Michigan, but left his home on a heroic quest to find consumable non-perishable no-wheat products in the Latin American wilderness.
However, Dan was disappointed when he learned that not only is Latin America not a wilderness, as his educational videos in Michigan had so honestly dictated, but that, for the 3rd consecutive continent in a row, there are no consumable non-perishable no-wheat products — or so the conservative daily El Mercurio reported.
Dan now works at the Santiago Times, studies Economics at La Universidad Catolica, and waits for the snow to fall.
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Christine Latz - Santiago Times
After having escaped tear gas attacks on the campus of the University of Santiago, Christine decided to use the second half of her university exchange year to write for the Santiago Times.
Christine is a bilingual student of journalism and English literature from Eichstätt, a minute town in Bavaria, Germany.
She has explored Chile from Arica to Tierra del Fuego, spent hundreds of hours in buses traveling around South America and loves hopping over the border to enjoy a huge Argentinian steak.
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Harriet Alexander-Orr - Santiago Times
Born and raised in sunny Rutland, Harriet left England’s smallest county to study politics at Leeds University, and is currently on exchange at the Universidad Católica in Santiago. Her wanderlust has seen her explore Europe by train, spend six months working in a French ski resort, hitch-hike to Morocco and travel by bus and boat from Venezuela to Patagonia.
Harriet joined The Santiago Times in August 2003, following stints on The Independent, Sunday Times Magazine and Leeds Student. Six months on Ghana's Evening News saw her hounding politicians, causing chaos as parliament correspondent and grooving with Ghanaian rappers. When not snowboarding, mountaineering or grappling with Spanish verbs, Harriet spends her time planning how to take over the BBC in Buenos Aires.
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Benjamin Witte - Santiago Times
Benjamin was born in Nova Scotia, Canada in 1974 and has been trying to find his way back ever since. Strangely enough, his path has recently led to Santiago (for the second time), where he and his puppy Castor are enjoying the good life and fast times of being an editor and an editor's dog.
Other recent stops along the road have been "Chepe," Costa Rica, where Benjamin put in a stint as a reporter for The Tico Times, Prague, Czech Republic, where he spread the gospel of the English language, and the People's Republic of Berkeley (California) where he did most of his growing up.
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Emily Green - Santiago Times
Emily is a third year undergraduate student at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where she studies journalism and international relations.
She arrived in Chile in the fall of 2003 as an exchange student at the University of Chile. She is currently taking a semester off from school and working at El Encuentro, a community radio station in Santiago, and The Santiago Times. Emily is from Atlanta, Georgia.
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Chris Celio - Santiago Times
Chris was born and raised in the outskirts of Washington, D.C. in northern Virginia where he spent his formative years swimming and learning to juggle and playing with yo-yos. Later on he went to the University of Delaware to study International Relations and finally graduated in May 2002.
During his stay at Delaware, Chris spent most of his breaks in other countries, including a semester in Senegal, West Africa. Since graduation he’s been traveling and working, returning recently from a year in China where he taught English in the Southern town of Baise. The love for travel and a new interest in writing has brought him to the Santiago Times, where he is loving the pace of the city and the flexibility of life at the Times.
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Heather Murphy - Santiago Times
Heather Murphy, known as "Cultural Lady" by the "Lady in Charge," has lived in Chile for about two years. She dedicates a large chunk of her time to the Santiago Times Cultural Review, a good excuse to write about twisted movies, investigate unusual facets of Chilean culture, and visit places she probably shouldn't.
In order to support her penchant for making short films about people such as the schizophrenic man-woman who calls herself Anticristo Divino (one of Heather's favorite Chilean authors), she also teaches English. Ask her when she is leaving Chile, and she will tell you "Maybe tomorrow, maybe never."
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Florian Meier - Santiago Times
Florian began his Internship at the beginning of October he helped structuring our new travel website, cooperated with the Santiago Times team and worked in the marketing department.
In Germany he studies economic engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Mannheim. Florian enjoyed Chile´s multi-cultural life. He likes traveling, outdoor activities and weekend trips to Viña del Mar. We all hope he has no more buzzer-nightmares and wish him the best for his future!
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Markus Biehal - CHIP Travel
Before Markus joined our team, he studied business administration and after that specialized in computer sciences (webdesign, information systems, communication systems, Macromedia Products, 3 D - Webdesign, Animations, Network, Webmarketing, Applications on mobile devices) and recently completed his Master in Media Economics.
Markus was a great asset during his stay at CHIP, helping with the Travel section and various bits of the web site. He is greatly missed.
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Jolyon Attwooll - Santiago Times
Ex-Londoner Jolyon pitched up in Santiago without a place to go in January 2003. Fortunately, he found some sort of meaningful existence at the Santiago Times shortly afterwards. He goes running quite a lot and he writes a fair bit too.
Sometimes he writes about running.
Pet hates include Musak and writing his own biography.
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Carmina Rodriguez - Santiago Times
Carmina joined the Santiago Times team in June 2003 soon after finishing her journalism studies at the University of Chile. Aside from writing for the Santiago Times, she is in charge of the Cultural Review section, which fits perfectly with her interests in art, decoration, books and music.
Other tasks include helping the "gringos" understand the sometimes confusing phrases appearing in the Chilean press, being one of the few Chileans on the news team. Her previous experiences include being a reporter for El Mercurio and writing on an architecture & decoration magazine. In 2001, she ventured to Holland, where she interned with an Internet research company "Van Dusseldorp & Partners" and tried to grasp the basics of the Dutch language.
In her spare time Carmina enjoys reading, playing the violoncello and being with friends and family.
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Molly Culver; Emily Weiner - Chip Travel, Santiago Times
Molly Culver and Emily Weiner hail from the Tri-State area, having just finished their respective Bachelor degrees at Barnard College.
Now in Santiago, they are infusing the new travel page with some fresh extranjera spice. They write for "The Times" a bit, too. They especially enjoy watching majestic horses on the beach, lunar eclipses, and taking long walks along the Rio Mapocho.
Favorite topics include literature, politics, and digestion.
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Eli Naduris-Weissman - Santiago Times
Eli Naduris-Weissman is a product of exile from Chile caused by the 1973 military coup. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was soon taken by his parents to California, where he has spent most of his life. He studied at Stanford University, where he helped form a student organization to support worker rights on campus, and later graduated with degrees in Philosophy and Biology.
In addition to working for the Santiago Times, Eli came to Chile last December in order to get to know his family and the country his father was forced to leave.
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Catherine Makereel - Santiago Times
Born and raised in the North of France, Catherine left froggy land many years ago to study English literature in Cambridge, England.
Her taste for adventure and a desire to explore "this country at the end of the world", brought her to Chile in September 2002.
As a full time journalist working for the Santiago Times, she is still trying to convince her colleagues that French people do shower every day.
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Leslie Josephs - Santiago Times
Leslie was born and raised in a small farming village just east of Teaneck, NJ, called New York City.
With dreams of living the "big city" life she kissed the cows goodbye and left for Chile, joining the Santiago Times in the Fall of 2002. Leslie studied print journalism and photography at Emerson College in Boston and has worked in both print and broadcast media.
She is fluent in English and Nuyorican (wtf?) and is learning to speak Spanish "como una Chilena."
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Jennifer Pribble, Editor - Santiago Times
Jenny Pribble came to the Santiago Times from Washington D.C., where she was working for the international NGO, Population Services International, in its HIV/AIDS prevention programs.
Jenny is originally from Oxford, Ohio, where she attended Miami University and studied International Studies.
She left the Santiago Times in June 2002 to pursue post-graduate studies in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Seth Searles - Santiago Times
Seth - a musician at heart - worked at a New York City investment banking firm before his internship at The Santiago Times for the latter half of 2001.
His banking background proved to be a valuable asset to our team. He enjoyed Santiago's limited but lively jazz scene while he was here, but we suspect he had an ever better time in Argentina and Brazil, his destination after sharing nearly eight months with us.
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James Mannix - Santiago Times
James Mannix comes from Sussex, England. He is studying for a joint honors in Modern Languages at Oxford University and joined the Santiago Times as an intern in July 2002. He loves the beautiful game and supports Tottenham F.C.
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Kit Dawney - Santiago Times
Kit Dawnay worked in financial, news and celebrity journalism before coming to Chile to edit the Santiago Times with Gallic flair and help from the Oompa Loompas.
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Teal Pennebaker - Santiago Times
Teal Pennebaker, CHIP's most recent intern, is a junior at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. An American Studies major with a concentration in political science, she hopes to pursue either journalism or a post-doctorate degree in political science after graduation.
She has been an editor at The Wellesley News for two years, a position which helped breed her love of writing, editing (yep, editing), and layout. As an intern for the Santiago Times, Teal will write, help with production, and do odd jobs. In her spare time, Teal travels and reads Nora Ephron books. She also gets a kick out of meeting new people and wandering around foreign cities.
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Katja Kirsche - CHIP Travel
Katja Kirsche was born in East Germany before the political changes took place. She is still making up for her lack of travel experience she suffered from in her early adolescence. Since the wall came down she embarked on different destinations, such as Western Europe and Mexico where she lived for a while.
CHIP Travel is appreciating her lively way of being, the travel experience she already has and the four foreign languages she can handle. Katja is studying media, culture and education in Leipzig, Germany.
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Sonia Roveri - Santiago Times
Sonia Roveri was born in Los Angeles, CA. but after several vacation trips to Chile, her family - chilenos - decided to move to Santiago in 1991.
During her 8 year stay in Chile, Sonia received a degree in Journalism from Universidad Gabriela Mistral, worked at CHIP news, was a free lance writer for CARAS magazine and was Marketing Manager for United International Pictures. Although it was an all-around great experience, Sonia is a Californian at heart and happily returned to LA in 1999.
Sonia is currently Senior Manager of Marketing and Public Relations for Twentieth Century Fox s Latin American Channels. During her free time she enjoys hanging out with family and friends, reading, dancing and movies. From Chile she misses the smell of fresh "hallullas", ingenious Chilean slang and Tongoy.
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Eric P. Martin - Santiago Times
Eric began working for CHIP after graduating from U.C. Berkeley and a short stint at CBS Radio. In addition to writing at the Santiago Times, he contributed to the Welcome Wagon (Chile 101) and edited the Visiting Chile's Wineries web site.
In college, he studied rhetoric while working at the campus radio station. He produced an award winning radio documentary and created the station's premiere comedy show, Bobbing For Lobsters. He is from Penn Valley, just south of the Middle of Nowhere, CA.
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Raul Ojeda - Travel Staff
Raul has lived in small towns like Lago Verde up in the Andes, in isolated islands like Maillen (two hour by boat from Puerto Montt) and big cities like Santiago or Chicago.
He is a bilingual (English and Spanish) elementary school teacher who enjoys travelling and meeting with people from all over the world. Raul worked in the United States for six years with different immigrants aid organizations and at the same time he was involved in some volunteer programs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
He and his wife Vicky have been living in Puerto Montt since they got back from the States. They have two kids: Simón and Mariel. |
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Julia Thiel - The Santiago Times
Julia Thiel grew up in the little town of St. Louis, Missouri, but swears she has never gone cow-tipping in her life. At the age of 18, she departed for Northfield, Minnesota, known as the city of "Cows, Colleges and Contentment" (also, incidentally, the home of Carleton College, where she went to school). Upon graduating in June 2004, she felt the urge to move to any city without the word "cow" in its motto, and based on this criteria chose Santiago.
Now fulfilling her dream of living in Santiago, she currently teaches English, takes Spanish classes, does pottery, and works at the Santiago Times. Her other interests include travel, photography, horses, reading and writing, and any combination of the above, as well as uncountable others.
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Federico Pooley - The Santiago Times
Although Federico is an intern, he provides a key function helping to liaison between a ST staff full of foreigners and a complex Chilean society. What is it to be Chilean? Ask Federico!!!!
Federico spent eight years in a German boarding school in the southern city of Temuco before coming to Santiago where he is a journalism student. He enjoys online journalism, politics, and investigative reporting.
During his internship at The Santiago Times he hopes to improve his English and writing skills. His aim is to become truly bilingual. In the company of friends and drinks, Federico enjoys analyzing "the Chilean reality."
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Nate Gill - The Santiago Times
Nate was born in the sweet sunny southern state of North Carolina. He is a 2003 NC State graduate in Philosophy and Anthropology and spent two years at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina working on health and education surveys for the U.S. government.
Nate hopes to begin a Master's degree in Latin American social movements in 2006 while continuing to work for the Santiago Times reporting the news.
He is especially interested in human rights and social policy issues.
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Brad Horrigan - The Santiago Times
Brad arrived from New York in November to act as the official photographer of The Santiago Times. With a photojournalism degree from Syracuse University, and some freelance experience, he hopes to improve the image quality of the paper.
While escaping the Bush Regime (albeit briefly) he hopes to improve his Spanish during his time in the Southern | |
