Lauren Pallemaerts is the executive editor for The Rocky Mountain Collegian, running the copy desk, collaborating with the other editors on production nights and editing every piece of digital and print content for style, grammar, syntax, ethics, punctuation, accuracy and readability.

Pallemaerts came to Colorado State University as an English major from Seattle, but she soon found a home in the journalism and media communication department and declared an English minor to pursue her passions for storytelling and contributing to an informed society. The JMC department has made her feel welcome and connected her with a way to serve the CSU community directly.

Now in her senior year, her interests include writing, reading, linguistics, hiking and traveling; her writing ranges from fiction to movie reviews and news, including features on local bookstores and the performing arts. Pallemaerts has studied journalism in Oxford, England, through a New York Times summer program and just returned from a semester abroad studying film and the arts in Exeter, England.

She is grateful The Collegian saw what it did in her because it’s allowed her to learn the ins and outs of a newsroom from early on in her college career. Pallemaerts’ favorite part of her job is working alongside her peers to create a product by students, for students.