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Apply | Fall 2018
Apply | Fall 2018
Let it question you, let it transform you, and let it break you.
Be reborn in our ninth issue, Ego Death.
Much like water, Charcoal has changed its current with the flow of our ever-growing community’s needs for the past five years. With a new team of over a hundred staff members, ambition has been our fuel in redefining the stories we aim to tell. That ambition led us to Climax, a narrative of our loudest and fullest selves. We soaked in the pleasures of self-indulgence and found what it meant to truly reach our peak. In tandem with ambition, curiosity has been the foundation of Charcoal’s ingenuity throughout this year, so it was only natural for us to be curious and question ourselves. What makes us who we are? As we each explored our individual heightened ego in Climax, we felt the need to search beyond and look within. We needed our ego to die.
Ego Death cracks open our truths. It expands on its own definition, the degradation of the human ego, by questioning the intangibility of such an experience. This issue acts as a capsule of case studies exploring how every human being can experience and achieve an ego death. By relinquishing the importance that ego provides, you can allow yourself to experience the emotions that come with approaching a theoretical death. There is fear, there is confusion, there is anger, yet above all else there is love. A deep, extreme, empathetic love for people whose lives are beyond yours.
If you allow Ego Death to do anything, let it question you, let it transform you, and let it break you. It’s when we crack ourselves open that we can fully express a deeper sense of love for people beyond our own experiences. Grant yourself the ability to put your ego aside from time to time and see what you discover in yourself and in others. It may surprise you how dissimilar, yet familiar, your world can become when you meet it with love.
Our egos are meant to die and be reborn again. So let yourself be reborn in our 9th issue, Ego Death.
We can’t wait to see who you become.
Here’s to five more years,
Charcoal Magazine
Photographers
Andre Weiss
Isabelle Yap
Melissa Hurtado
Ramsey Khalifeh
Shelby Barthelemy
Zoe Tseng
Videographers
Ernesto Garrido
Jaden Duenas
Lauren Richards
Melanie Menkiti
Senior Editors
Mya Turner
David Malkin
Writers
Alyssa Yeh
Annette Yan
Lauren Richards
Sophie Lyu
Suhera Nuru
Neha Chinwalla
Camille Ofulue
Marketing Manager
Irvin Alonzo
Marketing Copywriters
Hikima Lukomwa
Julian X
Skye Patton
Jacqueline Santoyo
Marketing Researcher
Kate An
Editors-in-Chief
Chike Asuzu
Shamayam Sullivan
Director of Operations
Jessica Zheng
Managing Editor
Raksha Khetan
Creative Directors
Gauri Nema
Manasvita Maddi
Marketing Director
Irvin Alonzo
Web Director
Stella Ikuzwe
Art Director
Gladys Vargas
Executive Assistant
Anne Joseph
Director of Photography
Melanie Menkiti
Photographers
Isabelle Yap
Jennifer Perez
Kaito Au
Ramsey Khalifeh
Sam Li
Shelby Barthelemy
Shi Qing Elizabeth Natalie Ng Zoe Tseng
Videographers
Melanie Menkiti
Jaden Duenas
Lauren Richards
Make-Up Artists
Atiyyah Mayaleeke
Gahyun Kim
Hikima Lukomwa
Nyayian Biel
Stylists
Immanuella Gabriel
Monfaye Nabine
Rhea Bandaru
Vibhuti Amin
Models
Adora Mehala
Alefiyah Gandhi
Allyson Imbacuan
Atiyyah Mayaleeke
Baderha Bujiriri
Becks Loo
Ea’sus Jiménez y West
Frehiwot Bayuh
Gabriela Garcia-Mendoza
Hannah Dedji
Hikima Lukomwa
Imayah Hawkins
Imandi Herath
Jaden Bridges
Jayda Bonnick
Julian X
Kim Buyannemekh
Maria Nino-Suastegui
Milena Campos
Miyu Nakajima
Monica Laryea
Mya Ison
Mya Turner
Naomi Boye
Nicolas Zuluaga
Patrick Udeh
Preethi
Reanna Valencia
Rhea Bandaru
Safiya Umrani
Sanjana Krishnamurthy
Symone Pettis
Toni-Marie Gomes
Zakiah Tcheifa
Senior Editor
Mya Turner
Print Editorial Staff Writers
Annette Yan
Blanca Isabella
Camille Ofulue
Esther Besson
Isabella Abraham
Lauren Richards
Monica Laryea
Neha Chinwalla
Sophie Lyu
Suhera Nuru
Print Editorial Copy Editors
Kiara Bennett
Frehiwot Bayuh
Shaylon Walker
Stacey Dubreus
Marketing Manager
Julian X
Copywriters
Angel Cisneros
Angie Zeng
Hikima Lukomwa
Jacqueline Santoyo
Kat Quach
Nicole Agwu
Skye Patton
Marketing Researcher Alefiyah Gandhi
Rachel Lin
Operations Manager
Atiyyah Mayaleeke
Production Assistants Brianna Anderson
Isabella Abraham
Kasandra Kue-Rojas
Maria Nino-Suastegui
Neha Chinwalla
Puturen Sungti Amer
Rafeeat Bishi
Torin Harris
Emmy Ma
Taylor Walker
Web Managers
Brianna Altman
Skye Patton
Web Designers
Megan Balani
Jewel Han
Digital Content Managers Farrah Ogelle
Leah McFarlance
Miles Brewster
Skye Patton
Online Editorial Staff Writers
Brittany Hoskins
Brianna Altman
Emmanuel Messele
Sara Diaz
Online Editorial Copy Editors Dinah Sher Gongora
Jewel Han
Juliana Sena
Design Manager
Drew Demeterio
Graphic Designers
Abby Gross
Alya Zouaoui
Annika Pyo
Asjha Malcolm
Derek Ewers
Gabriela Garcia-Mendoza Hannah Ramos
Joshua Diamond
Julie Lee
Kat Quach
Kimberly Zhu
Rayne Schulman
Thuy-An Nguyen
Performers
Romil Pandey
Anaya Barmecha
Thank you to the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground for their continued support.
Charcoal Magazine issue #9 is dedicated to Shari Tumandao. Thank you for being Charcoal’s biggest fan for these past 5 years. We will always be yours.