Lovejoy is serving as the Editor-In-Chief for the 2025-2026 school year. This year Lovejoy is a senior and this is her fourth year on the Trail staff. Last year, Lovejoy and other editors traveled to Philadelphia for the National Scholastic Press Association’s Fall Convention. Lovejoy has won three Best of SNO pieces, including her first piece “Collision course: teens and golf cart accidents in Peachtree City” which was the first for the Trail.  Lovejoy has been involved in theater for 3 years and has performed and worked backstage on numerous shows. This year she is serving as the Vice President of the Ambassadors club.  Lovejoy is eager to meet the new staff and have another successful year on the Trail.

Yasemin Kalpakci is a senior at McIntosh High School and currently serves as the Features Editor for the McIntosh Trail. She joined the Trail staff in early 2024 and was part of the staff that won the SNO Distinguished Site Award in both the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 school years.  In addition to her journalism accomplishments, Kalpakci has also achieved success in other areas. She won a nation-wide best of SNO award for her story, “McIntosh honors Vinny, the service dog of teacher and veteran Christopher Judy.” Kalpakci also won an All-Georgia award for her Critical Review, “Opinion: ‘I was a bad girl’ but was she?” and a Superior in Health/Medical Reporting with, “SOS: ending the stigma around finding help.” In addition to her journalism accomplishments, Kalpakci has also achieved success in other areas. Her art has been published on the board of education in the 2023-2024 school year.  Kalpakci has been involved in the Beta Club since elementary school and is an active volunteer at animal shelters and various school activities. She was instrumental in creating her old school’s World Food Club, promoting cultural exchange through food.  Outside of school, Kalpakci enjoys listening to Lana Del Rey, reading AO3, binge-watching Gilmore Girls, and spending hours on Pinterest. Like many high school students, she’s uncertain about her future plans but hopes to figure it out soon.

Shanon Woolf, CJE, advises two award-winning journalism programs at McIntosh: the online news site The Trail and the Legend yearbook. Woolf was the GSPA Adviser of the Year in 2022 and was named a JEA Rising Star in 2020. In addition to serving GSPA on the Teacher Advisory Council, she serves on the JEA Scholastic Journalism Week Committee. She earned her Certified Journalism Educator credential in April 2021 and was awarded Star Teacher at McIntosh High School in May 2021. She was also the Georgia Scholastic Press Association’s First Year Adviser of the Year in 2019 and has been a member of the JEA’s Scholastic Journalism Week committee since 2019. Woolf adjudicates yearbooks and online news sites for New Jersey, Florida, Nebraska and NorCal, among others, and presents at the National Scholastic Press Association’s fall conventions, for Georgia Scholastic Press Association and for Jostens, both at the state and national level. Woolf loves Coke Zero and helping student journalists and photographers hone their craft. She collects smushy pennies from her travels and polydactyl cats who need adopting.