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The Accolade

The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

The Student News Site of Sunny Hills High School

The Accolade

2023-2024 Staff

Jaimie Chun

Jaimie Chun

Senior Jaimie Chun returns excited and grateful to lead The Accolade as the editor-in-chief. Since her first year on staff two years ago, The Accolade newsroom has become a home away from home. She looks forward to each issue...

Susie Kim

Susie Kim

Entering her final year on staff, senior Susie Kim looks forward to continuing The Accolade's online legacy as the web editor-in-chief. Kim plans on focusing on the frequency of online posting and incorporating more multimedia ...

Irene Sheen

Irene Sheen

After spending her junior year on staff as the special sections editor, senior Irene Sheen is excited to contribute to The Accolade as the next managing editor. During her final year of high school, she strives to strengthen her writing expe...

Hannah Lee

Hannah Lee

Senior Hannah Lee looks forward to her third and final year on The Accolade staff as the web managing editor. After serving as a copy editor and opinion editor in the past, Lee is excited to experiment with multimedia elements...

Alexxa Berumen

Alexxa Berumen

Senior Alexxa Berumen returns for her final year on The Accolade staff as the editor-in-chief. She has been incredibly grateful for the opportunities that this publication has given her and is excited to help further the outstandin...

Seowon Han

Seowon Han

For her third and final year on staff, senior Seowon Han returns excitedly to oversee The Accolade's website as the web editor-in-chief. Serving as a Spotlight editor and business manager her junior year, Han experienced writing ...

Justin Pak

Justin Pak

After spending his second year on The Accolade staff as a News editor, senior Justin Pak returns as the web managing editor. Through journalism, he aims to strengthen his writing and time management skills. In his free time, Pak enjoys s...

Stacy Kim

Stacy Kim

After her first year as staff reporter for The Accolade, senior Stacy Kim is eager to return, prepared to serve as the 2023-2024 feature editor. After working closely with the feature editors last year, Kim was inspired by the c...

Jiwoo Han

Jiwoo Han

Senior Jiwoo Han returns to The Accolade this school year as one of the opinion editors. Han served as one of the sports editors in the 2022-2023 school year and hopes to integrate his knowledge of working with a co-editor int...

Aiden Park

Aiden Park

Having been the arts & entertainment editor last year, senior Aiden Park is excited to continue his journey in The Accolade as he returns as the co-opinion editor. He hopes to make great memories and contributions to the staff. Ou...

Faith Jung

Faith Jung

After being a part of The Accolade staff for two years, senior Faith Jung is excited to return as the Spotlight specialty magazine editor for her third and final year. Jung hopes to expand the influence of the school paper as well ...

Nathan Lee

Nathan Lee

Heading into his senior year, layout editor Nathan Lee plans to leave his mark on The Accolade's arduous journey toward producing innovative and respected news and specialty magazines. Winning numerous layout design awards in his ...

Angelina Jeong

Angelina Jeong

Senior Angelina Jeong enters her second year in The Accolade as she now takes the role of co-Spotlight specialty magazine editor alongside Faith Jung. As The Accolade takes its first step in starting a new line of Spotlight m...

Christine Yoo

Christine Yoo

After working as the Sports editor in her junior year, senior Christine Yoo is excited to help lead The Accolade’s print production as the managing editor. Yoo hopes to experiment with novel and fresh elements to incorporate...

Irene Park

Irene Park

After an eventful first year on The Accolade staff as a copy editor, junior Irene Park returns as the News editor. With a number of Best of SNO awards under her belt, Park plans to continue strengthening her writing abilities and ...

Nicole Park

Nicole Park

After undertaking the role of copy editor during her first year on staff, junior Nicole Park is thrilled to continue contributing to The Accolade's award-winning legacy as this year's Feature editor. Park was inspired by the broad r...

Aashna Dialani

Aashna Dialani

Entering her second year on staff, junior Aashna Dialani hopes to cover various topical issues as an Opinion editor of The Accolade. After previously being the assistant business manager last school year, she continues placing...

Iris Kim

Iris Kim

Senior Iris Kim spent her sophomore and junior years serving The Accolade as an illustrator. She returns this year as the online graphics editor and looks forward to simultaneously guiding her fellow illustrators and learning ...

Sue Kang

Sue Kang

Serving as The Accolade’s photographer for the 2023-2024 school year, Sue Kang is greatly looking forward to working for an award-winning paper. She hopes to contribute to The Accolade by producing high-quality photos that will ...

Hailey Kim

Hailey Kim

After completing Journalism 1 in her freshman year, sophomore Hailey Kim joins The Accolade as an illustrator, hoping to contribute to the publication by capturing students’ attention with colorful and captivating graphics. K...

Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

After his first year as a staff reporter on The Accolade, junior Kevin Lee returns as the assistant News editor. Lee enjoyed writing for a multitude of sections and covering exciting stories. This year, he hopes to experience ...

Lindsey Um

Lindsey Um

After working as an illustrator in her sophomore year, junior Lindsey Um returns as a co-graphics editor. Um looks forward to contributing more to The Accolade's online and print products. Through captivating artwork and graphics, U...

Kayden Kim

Kayden Kim

For his second year in The Accolade, senior Kayden Kim looks forward to filling his role as the co-Opinion editor. He hopes to make even more memories with his fellow Accoladians, given the fun he had during the previous year ...

Claire Lee

Claire Lee

After serving as a staff reporter during her junior year, senior Claire Lee is excited to return back to The Accolade as a co-Entertainment editor. For this 2024-2025 school year, Lee plans to work closely with other editors ...

Dareen Hagekhalil

Dareen Hagekhalil

After taking the Journalism 1 course during her junior year, senior Dareen Hagekhalil joins The Accolade as a staff reporter. She hopes to improve her writing and social skills by working with the award-winning team. Previousl...

Natasha Niazi

Natasha Niazi

Following her first year on The Accolade staff as a staff reporter, junior Natasha Niazi returns to the staff with a new position as a videographer. Starting the new school year, she is excited to broaden her experience through her vi...

Nathaniel Covarrubias

Nathaniel Covarrubias

Senior Nathaniel Covarrubias started off as a contributing artist creating comics for The Accolade during his freshman and sophomore years. He officially joined The Accolade in his junior year and worked to create many artworks...

Ryan Shin

Ryan Shin

Junior Ryan Shin is serving as an illustrator this year with the hope of creating an art style and developing a better drawing habit rather than loafing around. Shin draws a few of The Accolade’s thumbnails and the comic “R...

Jenna Kim

Jenna Kim

Entering her second year on staff, senior Jenna Kim is excited to return to The Accolade for the 2024-2025 school season. Alongside co-Entertainment editor Claire Lee, Kim looks forward to adding engaging stories to both the on...

Teo Jeong

Teo Jeong

Senior Teo Jeong joined The Accolade upon his friend’s recommendation. This year, he hopes to improve the overall quality of The Accolade’s podcast section as team leader.

Julie Jung

Julie Jung

After completing Journalism 1 in her freshman year, sophomore Julie Jung joins The Accolade as a staff reporter for the 2023-2024 school year. Although Jung previously found interest in writing feature stories, she hopes to gain...

Jin Son

Jin Son

After serving as a videographer during her junior year, senior Jin Son is looking forward to contributing to The Accolade as the video team leader for the 2024-2025 school year. During her final year of high school, Son hopes to e...

Jacob Kim

Jacob Kim

Senior Jacob Kim spent his junior year serving as an illustrator for The Accolade. This year, he returns with the same role and looks forward to drawing for the publication....

Jina Han

Jina Han

Senior Jina Han returns to The Accolade as a print graphics editor. In her free time, Han enjoys sleeping and listening to music. Han has learned much from her past year on staff and is excited to contribute to The Accolade’...

Asaph Li

Asaph Li

After taking Journalism 1 in the 2021-2022 school year, junior Asaph Li joins The Accolade as a photographer. Throughout his year in Journalism 1, he achieved fourth place at the Southern California Journalism Education Associa...

Noah Lee

Noah Lee

Looking forward to his final year photographing for The Accolade, senior Noah Lee hopes to uphold a great experience for readers through quality images, telling the story of campus events with action and emotion. When Lee i...

Chloe Kang

Chloe Kang

Junior Chloe Kang spent her sophomore year as a photographer for The Accolade. This year, she returns as the photo editor and is looking forward to working with new staff and her new opportunities. During her first year on st...

Pricilla Escobedo

Pricilla Escobedo

Senior Pricilla Escobedo spent her previous years as a staff writer for The Accolade. This year, Escobedo returns as the data team leader and continues to work on improving her skills to finish the year strong. During her ti...

Chris Lee

Chris Lee

Junior Chris Lee returns to The Accolade this year as a staff reporter. He hopes to meet deadlines diligently and looks forward to participating in writing competitions as means to improve his writing skills  Outside of Th...

Elisa Arias

Elisa Arias

After serving as an illustrator for the first two years of staff, senior Elisa Arias ends her high school chapter returning as one of The Accolade’s graphics editors. Arias plans to guide her fellow illustrators to push their ...

Tommy Li

Tommy Li

First hired as The Accolade adviser in the 2001-2002 school year, Tommy Li oversaw the print newspaper production until the 2008-2009 school year, when he took a break for family reasons. During that time, Li guided his staff to w...

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