Val Kohan, Editor-in-Chief and Entertainment Columnist
Valerie “Val” Kohan has been in the Communications and Journalism Program for four years and is a member of the Class of 2023. She is Editor-in-Chief with Sam Verdi of the online Talon 2.0. This is their second year being editors together and they thrive to make the Talon as welcoming as can be. Valerie was thrilled to be inducted into the Quill and Scroll November of 2021. She takes her many interests and turns them into articles posted on her Entertainment Column (originally started in October, 2020), such as Disney, Marvel (her favorite heroes are Spider-Man, DareDevil, and Jessica Jones), Star Wars (still stands by the fact that Han shot first), and other pop culture hot topics. As a student journalist at MTHS she puts her writing and photography skills to best use, publishing over a hundred Entertainment articles in her previous years in the program. In Spring of 2021, she and Sam worked their hardest to produce the final printed edition of the Talon titled, “Exploring Our Local History.” As a striving journalist, photographer, Gryffindor, certified wallflower, aspiring Jedi and Avenger, cinephilia (her favorite movies consist of The Karate Kid, Pretty In Pink, ET, The Empire Strikes Back, and 13 Going on 30), and an introverted bookworm (she believes that everyone should read The Perks of Being a Wallflower at least once), Valerie cannot wait to release more articles in her final year at Manchester to leave her mark in the school.
