Meru S. is 14 years old and an ninth-grader who has been homeschooled throughout her life. She has loved being part of the Lighthouse staff since she joined out of her interest in writing. Her hobbies include reading (particularly fantasy), art, and horse riding. Meru has been playing the flute for six years and sings Carnatic music. She very much enjoys books and movies and will never hesitate to have a conversation about The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Marvel, or any of her other favorites- Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Keeper of the Lost Cities, and many more. Meru is currently in the first stage of trying to form the constantly changing plot of a book. She always looks forward to spending time with her friends at TVE Park Days every week.
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Ava Amara Salado – Editor-In-Chief
Ava Salado is 17 years old in her senior year of high school, she enjoys studying History, Literature, and Environmental Conservation. She has been homeschooled her whole life. This is her forth year of writing for The Lighthouse but has been creating small stories since she was two. She has just started on her first novel. Some of her interests include photography, crafting, gardening, hot gluing everything, playing with her cats (who act like toddlers,) and cooking. When she is older, she hopes to become a script writer and director of animated series and movies and/or study to be a conservationist. She also loves animals and would like to one day start her own shelter home. She participated in Odyssey of the Mind for 2 years, qualifying for state in 2020, and has been a part of Homeschooled Films, basketball, and watching way too many sci-fi movies with her family and friends. One of her favorite things to do is to act out funny characters and make random crafts out of recycled material she finds around her backyard.
Blake Killion – Assistant Editor-in-Chief, Chief Videographer
Blake Killion is a seventeen year old filmmaker, artist and writer in his senior year of high school.
This is his first year in journalism as Assistant Editor-In-Chief and Chief Videographer. He hopes to learn more about TVE and its members through journalism for The Lighthouse, having been a member for all of his teenage years.
Beginning homeschooling in 2008, he has been doing film work since 2015, participating in over twenty shorts, and runs his own filmmaking club called Homeschooled Films. He has a small collection of instruments called otamatones and runs a photography page for them as a hobby, but is not very good at actually playing them. Blake lives at home in five acres of forest where he likes to make digital art, work on fantasy novels, and livestream video games with his friends to YouTube.
Olivia Brazier – Editor-in-Chief
Olivia is 16 and is in her junior year of high school. She is the Editor in Chief of the Lighthouse because she loves writing and because she wants to create connections in the TVE community. When she graduates from college, she would love to work as a journalist for a real newspaper! Right now, Olivia loves reading Shakespeare and watching superhero movies. She is also an acrobatic gymnast in a level 8 trio. She and her family live in Walnut Creek with their weird adopted dog, rabbit queen, and a flock of evil chickens.
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