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Elliot Russell

Reporter

Elliot Russell joins WMUK for the 2025-2026 academic year as a news intern. He grew up in Kalamazoo’s Westnedge Hill neighborhood and now lives in the Stuart neighborhood, studying English at the nearby Kalamazoo College.

A graduate of Loy Norrix High School, he got his start writing and editing for its student newspaper, Knight Life, until his graduation in 2022. He relocated to New York in 2024, where he worked at the Bronx Documentary Center and created a guerrilla internet radio station called Audio Ergo Sum during a New York Arts Program residency.

Outside the newsroom, he can be found biking downtown, developing film in the Kalamazoo College darkroom, or hanging out at house shows in the Vine neighborhood.