Elvis Fernandez, a freshman, is on the staff of The Mirror, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. He’s been part of The Mirror for only a year but has high ambitions. Fernandez is deeply rooted in online culture and social media. He has a burning passion for “Neon Genesis Evangelion” and is obsessed with internet drama and controversies on X (formerly Twitter). By far his biggest obsession is skateboarding. He began in seventh grade and stays up to date with all skateboarding news and videos. Politically, he considers himself centrist with a lean toward the right. He plans on making a trip to New York City to attend NYU for their journalism program. Fernandez intends to return to California and head to San Francisco, where he hopes to get an internship at Thrasher Magazine.