Tali Kirschenbaum
She/they
Lead Copy Editor, Staffwriter
Civil Engineering + Engineering Public Policy, CIT '27
Bio
Tali is a judgmental bitch who prefers critiquing others' work instead of creating her own, which is why she mostly edits for readme. However, the rest of our writers are lazy and suck at their jobs (except Benner, of course), so Tali writes articles on occasion as well—usually when she can be a fucking nerd about something. In Tali's free time, you can find them procrastinating.
Fun fact
Tali is a Carnegie Mellon nepo baby!
Location
Washington, DC
Contact
skirsche@andrew.cmu.edu
Latest
README Found to be Plagiarizing the Tartan
Have you noticed an increase in the quality of README’s articles recently? That’s no accident. You might think it’s because our staff is getting more experienced at writing satire legitimate news, right? NO!
We in the editing staff felt a strange sense of familiarity while reading over our previous issue to prepare it for publication, and upon investigation (which consisted of multiple sleepless nights fueled exclusively by Monster Energy during which we pored over every issue of every newspaper ever written), we discovered that every single one of our writers has lifted their content directly from the 16th issue …