Our Team
Jonathan Guajardo
Publisher/Editor-In-Chief
Jonathan Guajardo is a native San Antonian who relocated to College Station in the Fall of 2019. He attended Central Catholic High School in San Antonio, Texas where he graduated in 2009 with honors. He then chose to stay in SA for college, accepting a full scholarship to The University of the Incarnate Word (UIW), where he studied Communication Arts and graduated with his B.A. and M.A. in 2013 and 2014. While at UIW, he served three terms as Student Body President, two terms on the Board of Trustees, and three terms on the UIW Alumni Board.
Upon graduating with his M.A. from UIW in 2014, he started his own company, GA Media Productions, which specializes in professional video, audio, live, and photographic productions. He also founded an online newspaper called the San Antonio Sentinel that focuses in covering local news, lifestyle, and business stories in the San Antonio area.
A product of an Aggie family, he fell in love with the BCS area at an early age and his goal has always been to move to College Station and teach at Texas A&M University. Jonathan now lives out his childhood dream, teaching as a Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M. As part of the department’s New Media Lab, he teaches his students about the integration and promise of new media and emerging technologies in the 21st Century.
Sophie Villareal
Contributing Writer
Sophie is a native Texan who was born in Katy, TX and raised in Sugar Land, TX. Raised by two Longhorn-Fanatics, after graduating from Fort Bend Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land, she decided to pursue a degree in Communications with a minor in Film and Media studies and leave behind the burnt orange for maroon by choosing to attend Texas A&M! She is a first-generation Latinx female college student. In her downtime, Sophie enjoys playing basketball at the Student REC Center at Texas A&M, listening to various types of music and podcasts, and watching just about every sport known to man and talking about them with other sports fanatics. She has two loving dogs, Texas and Ginger who are the highlight of her day. Post-graduation, Sophie hopes to land a job in the field of sports media production.
Shalina Sabih
Staff Writer/Intern
Shalina is a Pakistani-American journalism major from Dallas, TX. She is also minoring in communication. She plans to graduate from Texas A&M in the fall of 2024. She moved to Texas in 8th grade from Karachi, Pakistan. She is a first-generation college student and a sports writer for The Battalion at Texas A&M. Shalina's favorite sport is football and she loves the Dallas Cowboys. She wants to pursue a career in journalism after college and also plans on attending law school. She pursued journalism in honor of her late grandfather, Baqa Uddin who was a well known reporter in Karachi, Pakistan.
James McKissick
Former Staff Writer/Multimedia Intern
James is a native Texan who was born in Lufkin and lived briefly in Grapevine before settling in Houston. Raised by two Aggies, after graduating from Lone Star College with an Associate of the Arts degree, he was able to pursue his dream of becoming an Aggie himself, and is currently finishing his Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunication Media Studies with a minor in Journalism. In his down time James enjoys bargain hunting at garage sales and thrift shops to add to his video game collection, hanging out with friends and exploring the great outdoors, fixing and modifying electronics, and working on media projects. Post graduation James hopes to land a job in the field of media production.
Rhett Brady
Former Staff Writer/Intern
Born and raised in and around Austin, TX, Rhett has always had a passion for writing. A senior studying communication and journalism, Rhett will graduate in the fall of 2022 with a BA from Texas A&M University. If he isn’t writing for the Chronicle, his hobbies include coin collecting, playing video games, watching movies, conducting research, and taking photos of beautiful vistas. Rhett hopes to work in new media after graduating college, and his dream job is to own a precious metals trading and exchange company.