Sophia Sailer, Editor-in-Chief
Sophia Sailer (she/her/hers) is currently the Editor-in-Chief at The Winonan.
Sailer is also a DJ for KQAL and hosts “Sippin’ with Sophie” on Saturdays from 3-6 PM. You’ll also catch Sailer at TV Services in Phelps, if you ever need to rent out a camera.
Sailer is from Eden Prairie, Minnesota and is a fourth-year student at Winona State University studying Mass Communication: Creative Digital Media as her major, and Advertising and Film studies as her minors. She loves talking to people and making sure their voices are heard and hopes to do that with her leadership at the Winonan.
Recently Sailer studied abroad for 2 weeks in Italy, creating art.
Sailer’s hobbies include listening to music, shopping, making art, and hanging out with friends.
![“I chose this college because of this major, and the next thing I know they said ‘you’re [explative] out of luck,’ But thankfully the school is keeping the major for current students until 2024,” Cooper Lipski, a third-year Mass Communications: Journalism major said.](https://winonan.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Carly-cover-story-900x600.jpeg)
![Professor Barry Peratt, who has been tenured at Winona State University since 1996, has received criticism from students for verbiage in his course syllabi and personal website. Most of the criticism has come from “the LGBTQ+ community” according to Peratt, but from others too. Peratt has revised his syllabi over several school years, maintaining his “personal belief system” in which he “strive[s] to treat all members of the human family with fairness and respect,” but rejects affirming the worldview of others in which he would have to suppress his own.](https://winonan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/51605801135_5c34969ed4_k-900x675.jpg)
