General Manager
Dylan Buckser-Schulz
Dylan (he/him) is your worst dream, your best nightmare. He is a sophomore who will probably double major in Creative Writing and something more practical. A lifelong fan of The Beatles, Dylan has had impeccable music taste from a very young age, and he tries his best to be humble about it. Dylan might seem out of it these days because he is still mourning Pitchfork’s merger with GQ Magazine; despite this, Dylan tries to bring his all to his bands, Frumptet and Junior Varsity, and to his radio show, Valley Sounds. He loves to make some noise, and hopes you love to listen.
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER
Veronica Smolinski
Assistant Music director
Emilia Chamorro
Emilia Chamorro is one half of WHCL’s Assistant Music Directors. A yapping international student from Nicaragua, Emilia can tell you about music lore from all around the world in her radio show Fleeting Obsessions! She plays the guitar and sings, but she mostly excels at the tambourine. Emilia’s favorite artists include: Arctic Monkeys, Soda Stereo, The Strokes, and The Clash. Don’t be intimidated by her unhealthily accurate decades playlists, her 8 hours of Argentine music playlist, or any of her other 165 playlists! If you can’t find her, Emilia is probably in a late night cinema class, coiling cables for AV, or enjoying her McEwen Taco Fridays.
Music director
Ian O'Reilly
assistant music director
Victoria Falcon
Staff and Programming Director
Ellie Carlson
COMMUNITY DIRECTOR
JONATHAN MEAD
Publicity Director
Haley Sharpe
Events Coordinator
Liv Piersall
Liv Piersall is the Events Coordinator for WHCL and the creative mind behind LOL (Liv Out Loud), where she curates an eclectic mix of music with her signature flair. When she’s not blessing the airwaves, she’s knee-deep in dense History readings, fostering the next generation of artists through creative chaos at the Wellin Museum, or meticulously curating her Pinterest boards like a museum professional—because someone has to keep the internet aesthetically pleasing. In the future, she hopes to take her curation skills beyond the digital realm, working in museums, archives, and galleries—ideally somewhere with good matcha and minimal existential crises.
SENIOR ADVISOR
Ainsley Novack
Ainsley Novack (she/her) is a senior advisor for WHCL. She co-hosts two radio shows on Thursdays! The first is “Matcha Do About Nothing” with Heather Doyle (ask about their spreadsheet) and the second is “Treat Thursday” with Tilly Zwirn-Givnish and Heather Doyle. Ainsley loves listening to classic rock and indie music. She is a government major (who definitely didn’t decide to become a gov major because of the West Wing…oops). She is from Boxford, Massachusetts (5 points if you’ve heard of it!) and she has strict beliefs about who qualifies as a J.O.B. (people who live within 45 minutes of Boston without traffic and/or who have a parent who commutes to Boston for work). She loves collecting vinyl records and she LOVES talking about it. Her most prized records are Twenty Twenty by Djo, Cape Elizabeth by Noah Kahan, a signed copy of Radical Optimism by Dua Lipa, the Metallica Blacklist (iykyk), and the five-year anniversary edition of Wasteland, Baby by Hozier.
Senior Advisor
Mia Horvath
Mia (she/her) drinks way too many cups of tea for it to be normal, and is an oxford comma enthusiast and Senior Advisor for WHCL. She is a senior—that should’ve been obvious—majoring in Sociology and minoring in Art History; she almost minored in Math but didn’t want to take 9am Linear Algebra because it’s never that serious. Mia grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers in the truck with her dad on the way to school, and is now a k-pop fan (an insane pipeline I fear). She has 193 and counting Spotify playlists because pressing shuffle on your “Liked Songs” should be a crime. You can find her in the studio Tuesdays at 4pm for Discover Weekly With Mi, her time away from pretending like she knows what her post-grad plans are.
ASSISTANT PUBLICATION EDITOR
Mekhia Foster
PUBLICATION EDITOR
Maddie Cloutier
assistant PUBLICATION EDITOR
Julia Ritzenberg
Julia (she/her) is an Assistant Publication Editor for the Wattage and a former Assistant Music Director. She’s a sophomore majoring in Environmental Studies and Creative Writing. (Allegedly) Named after the Beatles song, Julia has always loved music, especially from the 60s and 70s. But she’ll really listen to anything. Her all-time favorite artists are John Prine, Paul Simon, Adrianne Lenker, and Clairo. You can (and will) hear these artists on repeat if you tune into Julia and Haley’s show, DNR!!
Webmaster
Ton somnug
Studio Engineer
Sully Gaffney
Sullivan (he/him) is a man out of time and by happenstance the studio engineer for WHCL. He is a freshman looking to pursue a dual degree in either Economics and Computer Science or Government and Computer Science. Growing up only listening to his dads favorite music and never anything currently popular, what he lacked in modern pop culture knowledge, he made up for in excellent rock and roll music taste. Sullivan seems to be out of it from time to time as he tries to understand how helper t-cells secrete helper proteins that are converted by MHC2's receptors on cytotoxic cells to stop bacterial infections in his biology class that he somehow ended up in, however, he is always roped back to reality by the smooth tunes of The Zombies, The Beatles, and the other greats of the British invasion.
MEMBER AT LARGE
Eleanor Cooper
