Staff of the month: Zoé Pelen

Zoé is a U2 majoring in poli sci and minoring in IDS and Econ! She is from the south of France and moved for the first time when coming to McGill. She joined Catalyst this winter semester as part of the podcast team. She had some experience at the CKUT radio and live show but podcasting is really different with the editing and post production aspect, and she has learned a lot with Catalyst and has really enjoyed it! Zoé is interested in developing countries politics especially the Middle East and South East Asia!

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