Ignatius Doherty is a rising senior at Loyola High School of Los Angeles, where he serves as the Creative Director of The Loyalist, the school’s newspaper. He is the founder and president of Loyola’s Best Buddies chapter, a club dedicated to fostering inclusion for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Outside of school, he assists with teen programming at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. In his free time, he loves long drives through Los Angeles, experimenting with multicultural recipes, and listening to new music. (June 2025)