Sasha Benke is a senior at the University of Southern California majoring in International Relations and minoring in Economics. Sasha is passionate about journalism, having been a staff writer and copy editor for her high school’s newspaper, The Burlingame B, and a political science and travel contributor to the Foothill Magazine at Foothill College. On campus, Sasha is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the Russian Club. She loves languages and writing, and enjoys exploring the power of the written word in different cultures. When she is not writing, she is probably taking photos of her friends and her dog, or playing volleyball on the beach.