When it comes to wordsmithing, analyst Janelle may have a more eclectic background than most. After earning B.A.s in professional writing and creative writing from Purdue University, Janelle began a career writing on a wide range of topics including business management, investing, and marine-focused sewing projects before finding her new home at Blackstone. Outside of learning everything she can about the wide world of oil analysis, Janelle enjoys playing D&D with friends and working on DIY projects. Her creative hobbies include knitting, crocheting, moving one of her family’s three cats off of her knitting or crocheting project, making stained glass art, and writing her very first fiction novel.

Gabey holds a Master’s degree in Devised Theatrical Performance from Pig Iron Studios in Philadelphia, which is a fancy way of saying she went to clown school. On weekends you can usually find her teaching or attending some form of artistic performance. On weekdays, you’ll find her curled in bed next to her Corgi, Oatmeal, reading some deeply inspiring work of environmental non-fiction that has likely moved her to tears. If she is neither of those places, she is probably cruising in a late 70’s Mopar with her partner (who restores and preserves Classic Mopars) to get ice cream. Although Gabey attended clown school, she asks that you please refrain from asking her to tell you a joke. She graduated during the 2020 pandemic, and Zoom school was not sufficient.

Jeff came to Blackstone after a long career in the newspaper industry that led from small-town Ohio to Anchorage, Alaska, and eventually Fort Wayne. He’s gone from writing about politics and crime at night to writing about oil during the day! He and his wife have three adult daughters. As a music fan of a certain age, I still have a wall covered with CDs and cassettes (!) and enjoy seeing the seasoned artists who visit The Clyde Theatre. He also enjoys walking their two dogs and tries to enjoy working on his fixer-upper house (one daughter got him a T-shirt that reads, “I enjoy long romantic walks through Menards”).