Mia Payette is a junior at Sahuaro High School. She likes to stay busy by being involved with school. Mia plays snare drum in the marching band and has been a percussionist since 5th grade. Band takes up a huge piece of her heart, and she is President of the Band Club. She is also a part of book club and runs social media (@sahuaro_bookworms on IG). This year she is adding The Paper Cut to her list of involvements, but her passion for writing and journalism started in her middle school journalism class. She attended a camp at the UofA this year to reignite her love for writing, and she hopes to attend their School of Journalism after she graduates. Mia has a predilection for all things colorful and you can often find her wearing her favorite color pink. She loves to accessorize and make her own jewelry to reflect her personal style. Mia is a nostalgic person and takes pictures to remember the past and where she was at that exact moment. Her phone has over 6,000 pictures. The sunset, friends, and her dog are her favorite subjects for taking photos. She has an older sister, Tara, who recently graduated, leaving Mia to spend these next two years at Sahuaro on her own!

Tatum Crawford is a junior at Sahuaro High School. She joined The Paper Cut to grow her social and writing skills. When she graduates, she wants to move to Seattle with her older sister. Her dream college is the University of Washington, and she wants to go into the medical field. She likes to listen to music and read in her free time. She loves playing with her two cats and bonding with them. She enjoys traveling and sightseeing. Her favorite places she's been to are Milan and Florence; she loved the food and the art. She loves art museums, her favorite ones being the Louvre and the Uffizi Gallery.  She loves anything blue, as it's her favorite color. She has multiple pieces of blue jewelry she wears every day. She also likes playing games, her favorites being Animal Crossing and Legend Of Zelda. She loves taking pictures; she has over 30,000 photos on her phone, most of them being travel and cat photos. Her favorite place to visit is Seattle, Washington. There, she loves to visit her sister and go to the local aquarium. She also loves going to Japan Town in Seattle for the food and shopping. She also loves making keychains and phone charms as gifts for her friends and family.

Family is also super important to her. She loves visiting her family in Mississippi, and she enjoys spending time with them. She does many vacations with her mom, and they are super close because it was only the two of them for twelve years; that was the only family that was closest to her. She has family scattered all around the world, including eighteen siblings. She only knows about four of them but would be interested in meeting the rest. Out of all of them, she is the youngest, as all of them are in their late twenties.