Born in DC and raised in Maryland, Quadir Gillette is a staff writer with the Raider Review. Having been a student at Eleanor Roosevelt High and Greenbelt Middle School, Quadir has been interested in the events, local businesses, and people that make this city so great. Quadir has and will continue to create a series of articles involving individuals and businesses in Greenbelt throughout his time working with the Raider Review. Other than Maryland, he has an interest in the culture of Eleanor Roosevelt itself, it’s thriving school community and active clubs. He is determined to use journalism to bolster the Roosevelt community and bring awareness to local events. Quadir’s specialty has always been reading and writing, from creating short stories to reading news articles. HOwever, Quadir has a variety of interests, such as cooking, art, fitness, and botany. Quadir also has an interest in advocating for his schoolmates, both upper and lower classmen. Through journalism, he hopes to instruct and inform Roosevelt scholars through his writing in a well-written, easy-to-digest manner.

Mercy Tazi is an eager, wacky, fun girl in her junior year of high school. Her life consists of having high passions for informative and dramatic texts found in the world. In most of her free time, she tends to find herself watching Reality TV or taking a break to sleep to pink noise. Mercy has joined journalism because of her interests in being a source of help (academically) and to help her peers. Mercy’s goal for writing is to inform the readers, offering inspiration and breakdowns towards harder topics. In particular, she loves studying psychology and tends to analyze the behavior of students in both school and their social lives.  Anything major that comes out of her observations will be discussed by her. Her dream in the future is to become a cosmetic chemist because she believes the skin should glow to enhance natural beauties.  Often, she makes an effort to participate in STEM related activities that will help boost her knowledge and future major in science. She always tries to keep a positive outlook and be up to date with all assignments and news from her teachers. Journalism is a way for Mercy to be highly attuned with the social aspect of her life and “give back” to her overall community while being socially entwined. The Raider Review helps start the basework in a quiet and calm environment, which helps boost her productivity and the motivation to write more!

Jeremiah Gouldson, the Junor, joined Journalism with hopes to not only cover major but minor and local things that affect not only students and staff, but the world at large. Finding most interest in Journalism, Jeremiah likes to talk about serious topics with context and educated nuance to spark conversations and encourage deep critical thinking. He also finds extreme interest and even love in subjects like English and Science. This interest bleeds into his into later and more personal interests besides Journalism. These include audiobooks, physical books, watching documentaries, and engaging in content that sparks critical thought. Not only does the love for his subjects go into his personal interest. He intends to integrate it into his life. Jeremiah wants to be some type of biologist and go for a liberal arts degree. Circling back to journalism, he uses this as a way to represent information clearly and responsibly. He joined journalism to help people form their own opinions and thoughts freely without the fear of getting information of getting skewed or biased reports and white lies. This is most imperative to him when it comes to science-related topics as a lot of misinformation spreads easily about those type of topics. Aside from that, he also hoped for himself to leave a good reputation and impression as a thoughtful writer.