In a unanimous vote last Thursday, Justice staff and editors elected Avraham Penso ’20 as the editor in chief for the 2018-2019 academic year. 

Penso got his start at the paper copy editing articles for grammar and style, quickly working his way up to co-Copy editor in the fall semester of his first year. He served in that position until January 2018 and worked directly under then-Editor in Chief Abby Patkin ’18 as a deputy editor as he trained to become the next editor in chief. 

“I’ve had a lot of experience with editing articles from all different sections and improving writing at all stages of the process,” Penso said of his time as Copy editor. “I really love it, and I’m willing to spend many, many hours a week doing it.”

As a student of the sciences, Penso hopes to increase the newspaper’s coverage of the University’s science, technology, engineering and math community. Expanding the Justice’s coverage of science news will “attract new writers and … build on our readership to students involved in STEM,” Penso said in an interview with the Justice. 

The editors also elected Natalia Wiater ’20 as managing editor, the newspaper’s second-in-command. In an interview with the Justice, Wiater said that she will be working with Penso to improve office efficiency and the quality of coverage.

“I look forward to continue working with all editors to ensure the best quality paper possible, to benefit both our readers as well as the hard-working editors and staff members, without whom there would be no paper,” she said. 

Moreover, Penso said that he looks forward to continuing his working relationship with the Justice editors and staff. 

“We have really talented and really hard-working editors, and it’s an honor to work with them every week and to see how much effort they put in throughout the week to get their events covered and articles in on time and to make them as amazing as possible,” Penso said. “So I think we’re going to put out some great issues next year.”


 —Abby Patkin