Alexa Profka is a Junior at Dakota. This is her third year as a part of The Dakota Planet. Alexa is very passionate about reading and writing, and plans to attend a good university in the near future. In her free time, she likes...

Krystyna Kijewski is a senior at Dakota High School and this is her first year at the Dakota Planet. She is involved in the Dakota CTC, and Women Empowerment Club. Krystyna is an avid writer with a passion for politics and music....

This is Lexi Brown. She is in 12th grade. She likes to play volleyball and hangout with her friends. Lexi will be writing stories about sports events, and other topics such as psychology.

Nathan Richardson is a Senior this year at Dakota High School. This is his first time writing for the Dakota Planet, and he is so excited to start writing stories! He likes to hang out with friends, play with his dogs, and play...

Madison Singer is a senior at Dakota High School. She is the president and founder of Dakota's Women's Empowerment Club, and the co-president of the CTC. Some facts about Madison are that her favorite movie is Back to the Future...

This is Makayla Rayis. She is a senior this year at Dakota High School. This is her first time writing for the Dakota Planet and she is so excited. She likes to go out with her friends and walk her dog. She can not wait to get...

Ellie Snodgrass is a senior and this is her first year working for the Dakota Planet. She loves reading and writing and is very excited to share stories with her school! Ellie is an advocate for women's rights and is the treasurer...

Meredith Benedict is a senior this year. This is her first year writing for dakota planet but she enjoys writing. Meredith loves to hang out with her friends, read, and shop. She will be writing reviews on books to help other...

This is Whitney's first year publishing for the Dakota Planet. Her interests are music, reading, watching tv, and hanging out with friends. Her vision for the paper is to have people more interested in the Dakota Planet and have...

Jake Wigginton is a senior at Dakota Highschool, this is his first year writing for the Dakota Planet. He is on Tech crew for Dakota he does the lights for the musicals and plays. After Highschool he plans on being a plumber!

Melina is a senior at Dakota High School entering her first and final year of being a journalist in the semi-famous newspaper, The Dakota Planet. Outside of school, Melina is a visionary and intuitive person, often enjoying anything...

Drew Astorga is a senior at Dakota High School. Drew is interested in music, lifting, and wrestling. This is the first year that Drew is working on the newspaper.

Chloe is in 12th grade and she enjoys being a part of the Dakota community through multiple clubs including Class Council, National Honors Society, Link Crew, Student Government, and Coalition Teen Council. She likes to write...

Eli Palmer is a sophomore at Dakota. This is her first year as part of The Dakota Planet as a writer. In the future she would like to attend college and get a degree in game development. Eli loves reading, drawing, video games,...

Ava Messing is a senior at Dakota High School. This is her first year on Dakota Planet and is excited. She enjoys seeing friends and traveling. Her plan is going to a good college in the fall to study in psychology.

Alyssa is so excited to start off her senior year writing for the Dakota Planet. As a first-time staff writer, she hopes her experiences writing for the newspaper will help strengthen her writing skills, as well as provide her...

Kai Rue is a Junior at Dakota High School. It is her first year writing for Dakota Planet. Kai enjoys listening to music, reading, and watching Netflix shows. She plans to go to university to become a journalist. She is excited...

Isabella Aluia is currently a Dakota Highschool senior. She enjoys spending her free time doing anything that involves creativity (drawing, occasionally creating weird structures, etc.), playing video games, and cuddling with...

Ryenne Ashworth is a senior for the 2022-23 school year. This is her first year writing for the newspaper, but she has been writing for fun for years! She loves to dance, read, and spend time with her friends. She looks forward...

This is Ericka Stamps. Ericka is in 12th grade. Ericka likes to tell a lot of stories. Ericka is a cheerleader at Dakota. Ericka plans to write stories about the sporting events and any other interesting stories that she comes...

Kathryn Old is a Senior at Dakota High School. This is her first year writing at The Dakota Planet. Kathryn loves traveling, reading and photography. She hopes during college to study abroad and work towards a career internationally.

Alyssa Zerilli is a 12th grader at Dakota high school, She has experience in creative writing and enjoys water/snow skiing and drawing in her spare time.  Alyssa hopes to create entertaining and fun content for everyone to enjoy...

Jade Lilly is a senior at Dakota High School. This is her first year writing for the Dakota Planet, but she has plenty of experience towards writing professional essays. Jade loves anything artistically inclined and has designed...

Mackenzie Patenaude is a senior at Dakota Highschool. This is her first year writing for the paper, and she is very excited! She hopes to bring more coverage on women's athletics and overlooked clubs to the Dakota Planet. Mackenzie...

Melanie Sejnowski is a senior at Dakota High School and is a writer on the Dakota Planet newspaper. She has prior experience with writing in her other classes such as Creative Writing and English. Since those classes she has gone...

Zachary Veal is a senior at Dakota High School. He is interested in music while playing percussion in his 3rd hour Concert Band class right here at Dakota, playing basketball as a hobby outside of school, and forecasting the weather...

Payton Rettich is a Senior at Dakota High School. It is her first year as a part of Dakota Planet. She was on Dakota's Dance Team for three years and hopes to go to Grand Valley State University for psychology. She enjoys reading...

Logan Barnhardt is a Junior at Dakota. It is his second year at the Dakota Planet, he started as a cohost to the Dakota Planet Student Spotlights. In the future he hopes to go to a good collage and get a business degree. He enjoys...

The Dakota Planet Staff Profile for the school year of 2021-2022