Nayla Makinano, a Sophomore at Technology High School, is a Staff Writer and the Art Editor for the Titan Times. She was a member of the Student Leadership Council, working with U.S. Representative Mike Thompson on different topics that affected California from 2023-2024.

   As Art Editor, Makinano is responsible for helping coordinate images for articles that would benefit from art, and helping writers get in touch with artists for help with their article. She is also in charge of games and artist spotlights for the paper. Makinano hopes to someday go into neuroscience to study anomalies and changes in the brain. She loves ballet, which she has been doing since she was two years old, as well as drawing, painting, reading, and photography.