E-Board

Send all inquiries to SyracuseEd2010@yahoo.com

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Yelena Galstyan is Syracuse University’s Ed2010 President. She met Ed at Juice Jam freshman year and fell head over heels. Starting off as project coordinator, she has since taken their relationship to the next level.

A local in Syracuse, Yelena had a blast interning for the Voices section of The Post Standard in high school and Green CNY magazine in the summer of 2009. She most recently spent the summer in NYC, interning for Whole Living magazine at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and TheDailyGreen.com at Hearst Digital.

In the spring of 2011, Yelena did a stint in Australia and wrote for The Lost Girls. After falling in love with the country, she’s dead set on moving there post graduation and launching her career in magazines.

Now-a-days, Yelena runs a tight schedule. Besides running from one class to another, she freelances for campus publications such as The Daily Orange, What the Health, Student Voice, and Equal Time. She’s also the Features editor for What the Health magazine. On a good day you can catch Yelena at a yoga class or sippin’ on a frappuccino in Starbucks, planning her life out to include travel, adventure, and of course, writing.

Krista Johnson met ED her freshman year at Syracuse. She fell in love right away with his ability to connect her with so many people in an industry she loves. Krista has stayed in touch with the fashion world all the way from Duluth, MN where she grew up, through each one of her four subscriptions to high fashion mags.

She is a public relations major at Newhouse and a marketing minor who is combining everything she loves with the fashion and beauty communications milestone. She has written for various local newspapers and national websites as well as being the public relations director for Zipped magazine on campus.

With her first NYC internship at Marie Claire under her belt she’s ready to take on another one and use everything’s she’s learned and everyone’s she’s connected with to help keep ED the most well networked group on campus.

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Liz Gravier is a junior magazine and Spanish dual major with a minor in marketing, but must admit mags, seemingly Ed, were her first love. Liz spotted Ed as a freshman and has been smitten ever since, especially after landing jobs on the E-board as project coordinator, treasurer, and now co-vice president.

Being the cordial mag-man he is, Ed introduced Liz to the many glossies around campus, one being SU’s first and only fashion magazine, Zipped, where she holds the position as feature editor.

Making this past summer one to remember, Ed even helped her land her first internship in New York City under Shape magazine’s roof where she learned social networking, the ins and outs of mags online, and even—for our fitted Edsters—celebrity trainers’ best workouts.

When Liz’s nose isn’t glued in between the glossy pages and pages of celebrity sightings, fashion-forward tips, and stardom interviews, it is most likely that she’s busy writing her own, on a date with her two most favorite men: Ben and Jerry, working with Ed to make her magazine editorial and writing dreams come true, or, of course, doing all three.

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Eric Vilas-Boas is a senior magazine major with an interest in entertainment, music and longform journalism. Also snark. He installed Ed’s WordPress framework that you’ve been clicking.

His claims to fame include: internships at Esquire, SPIN, Open Road Integrated Media; editor in chief at 20 Watts; writer, producer, actor for the Telly Award-winning team at Orange Television Network’s Humor Whore Productions; and enterprise lead producer at The NewsHouse. He can write, photograph, shoot and edit video, and design sometimes. Hire him after he graduates this coming May.

He enjoys free concerts, The Village Voice, New York, Mother Jones, the occasional all-nighter and most of all, writing about himself in the third-person — and old, very played-out, bad jokes.

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Brittany Leitner met Ed fall of sophomore year and has been wondering how she lived without him ever since! Clearly intending to keep their relationship hot for the next three years, Brittany has become the secretary for Ed 2010 in order to stay attached to his hip.

Brittany is a junior magazine journalism and English major and she is a staff writer for Zipped magazine and HerCampus.com. When she isn’t busy writing witty articles for magazines, she’s pumping out poems and short stories for Verbal Seduction, the literary magazine her work has appeared in every semester since freshman year.

Brittany lived in New York City this summer and was an editorial intern at Time Out New York magazine. Her ultimate goal is to land a killer magazine editorial job and write her modern day William Faulkner-style novels on the side.

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Sarah Schmalbruch was first introduced to Ed as a freshman when he dropped in on one of her Newhouse classes. His promises of great networking connections in the magazine industry sparked her interest immediately, but it was not until she attended his first informational meeting that she realized she and Ed were the perfect match. After participating in (and enjoying) every one of Ed’s events during the first semester of her freshman year, Sarah accepted the position of social media coordinator. Now, as a sophomore, she is excited to once again be a part of the E-Board with the position of treasurer.

Drawn to Syracuse all the way from Chicago, Sarah abandoned her hopes of a more tropical college climate for all the opportunities Newhouse had to offer. She has taken full advantage of these, having been hired as a writer for the campus’ fashion magazine, Zipped, and contributing articles to the campus newspaper, The Daily Orange. Sarah’s involvement and interests do, however, extend beyond the Newhouse walls. Her love for dance led her to join the Orange Pulse Dance group, and when she’s not dancing, there’s a good chance she can be found working out in one of the campus gyms.

Having lived abroad in Zurich, Switzerland for 5 years, Sarah began traveling at an early age and has not stopped since. She hopes to continue to add to the unique experiences she had while living in Europe, and to one day secure a job at her favorite magazine, Marie Claire. But for right now, she’s focusing on making her relationship with Ed a long-term one.

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Erik Barzdukas was introduced to Ed soon after arriving on campus his freshman year. He continues to be impressed by Ed’s seemingly endless list of connections and never failing ability to provide food at every function. Erik works under Eric in order to keep the website spick and span.

Hailing from the greater Seattle area, Erik came out east to study magazine journalism and English, with plans to dabble in information studies. Besides being a huge computer nerd; he enjoys politics, literature of all forms, and sailing with the Syracuse sailing team. His magazine oriented goals include contributing to Harper’s, The Atlantic, Wired and maybe The Economist. He writes a political opinion blog for the Student Voice that is published online every Monday.

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Christina Ferraro graduated from gluing the glossy pages of magazines to her walls to actually writing for them, penning articles for What the Health, Equal Time, and Zipped. She first encountered Ed the fall of her freshman year, at Juice Jam. Enthralled by his connections in the magazine industry, Tina knew immediately that Ed was the one for her.

Tina is a sophomore magazine journalism and psychology dual major, with a concentration in fashion. She writes and edits, but also has a mild interest in graphic design, thanks to Sherri Taylor. When she’s not running from class to her local internship, she enjoys reading Sylvia Plath and listening to her friends complain about the frat boys they’ve fallen in love with. In the future, she hopes to write about life, love and beauty at Elle magazine, not without the help of Ed.

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Advisor | Melissa Chessher | Magazine Department Chair
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications