Board Members
President
Lorea Zabaleta
Lorea is a senior from Bozeman, Montana, pursuing a major in international political economy and minors in journalism and environmental studies. She started writing for the Catalyst Active Life section second semester of her freshmen year and continued that role through her sophomore and junior years with a brief stint as the paper’s social media manager. December-May of 2021 Lorea contributed to the twice-weekly newsletters of the CC COVID-19 Reporting Project. She has also served as a summer intern for Mountain Journal, a conservation publication covering the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and as an intern for The Ski Journal, which she continues to write for. Now alongside her Cutler responsibilities, Lorea is a co-editor-in-chief for the college’s newest publication: the CC Outdoor Journal.
Vice-president
Eli Jaynes
Eli Jaynes is a junior from Meriden, New Hampshire. Eli is majoring in political science, with a minor in journalism. He has been a frequent contributor to the news section of The Catalyst since his sophomore year, covering news on campus and in the greater Colorado Springs area. He also writes for the CC Outdoor Journal, a new publication on campus. Eli will be reporting on Colorado Springs and southern Colorado in more depth this summer as a news intern with KRCC, the Colorado Springs-based public radio station.
Brand Director
Matt Cronin
Matt Cronin is a junior from Needham Massachusetts. Matt is a biochemistry major here at CC but also works as a freelance graphic designer. Matt specializes in creating unique brand identity designs but also works in illustration and web design. Matt is helping cutler publications define and organize their branding. When Matt isn’t working, you can find him backcountry skiing, kiteboarding, and just generally enjoying the outdoors. Ask him about logos, typography, or his latest adventure.
co-editors-in-chief, the catalyst
Emma McDermott
Emma is a senior from Wilmette, Illinois pursuing a major in political science. She started working as a writer for The Catalyst Opinion section during her first year at CC and spent a semester as section editor. In addition to her responsibilities as co-editor-in-chief, she continues to write, create the weekly crossword puzzles, and do the paper route on publication days. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, playing soccer, paddle boarding, spending time with her younger siblings, and cheering on the White Sox.
co-editor-in-chief, the Catalyst
Zeke Lloyd
Zeke Lloyd remembers five dogs from his childhood. Over the course of his lifetime, his family has owned six. Cairo, a blue Merle Great Dane, passed away just before his parents moved Zeke and his two older siblings from New York, New York, to Lancaster, Ohio. Zeke was one at the time. The new dog was named Cerberus. She was an enormous black mastiff who seldom ran in the rural, open space where Zeke spent his early years. The other addition after Cairo’s passing, Lowly Worm, was a low-to-the-ground mutt named for a character in Richard Scarry’s children’s books. Lowly was much more spirited. The two dogs both bonded with Zeke and his brother and sister. The four became very close. Cerberus passed away just before the family relocated to Hilliard, a suburb of Ohio’s capital. That’s when Poseidon, a Landseer Newfoundland, joined the family. Po was even gentler than he was enormous. Despite their difference in size, Lowly and Po became inseparable. When Lowly started to show his age after 15 years, Po was also nearing his end. The next two dogs arrived when Zeke’s siblings were already in college. Atlantis, a black Newfoundland, and Avalon, a brown English mastiff, kept him good company in the absence of the siblings he’d come to consider his two closest friends. While Colorado is likely one of the best states for dogs, Zeke does not have a dog of his own.
Zeke is a junior economics major at Colorado College.
co-editor-in-chief, cipher
Alex Wollinka
Alex is a junior from Colorado Springs, majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She started as an editor for Cipher in her freshman year, and is now taking up the position of co-editor-in-chief.
co-editor-in-chief, cipher
editor-in-chief, the leviathan
Henry Freedman
Henry Freedman is a senior English major focusing on creative writing and poetry. Having been the prose editor for a year, he is currently one of the Editor in Chiefs of Leviathan magazine and is a co-leader of the film photography and darkroom club at CC. He was born and bred in New York City, is a former parkour teacher and a lover of soup dumplings, ramen and steak.
Co-editor-in-chief, anamnesis
Shea Li Dombrowski
Shea Li is a senior from Liberty Hill Texas majoring in Philosophy and minoring in English Literature. She enjoys writing fictitious and philosophical pieces, has worked as an outside reviewer for Stance's undergraduate publication, and briefly wrote pieces for Splendry's online women's magazine. This upcoming year Shea Li hopes to assist Anamnesis in reaching out more broadly, working with writers to see their philosophical ideas well represented in the publication, and featuring philosophical work that will excite intrepid minds.
Co-editor-in-chief, anamnesis
Co-editor-in-chief, anamnesis
Advisor, comptroller
Karen West
Karen West is the soul of Cutler publications. Students and faculty advisors all come and go on a (more or less) yearly basis. Karen, meanwhile, makes sure Cutler Publications has a sound budget, good legal standing, and a robust plan for the future. She is the cautionary voice of reason is in every heated dispute, and the only thing standing between Cutler Publications and pure chaos.
faculty Advisors
Rick Anthony Furtak
Faculty advisor to Anamnesis since it was founded in 2016 by Willow Mindich, Rick Anthony Furtak has taught at CC for over a decade and a half. He has published two philosophy books and two books of poetry in translation and edited two collections of essays. His enthusiasm for the philosophical aspects of literature is linked with his love of existential thought and his interest in the interdisciplinary study of emotions – all of which are reflected in his teaching areas.