With the publication's core editorial staff now based in Chicago, in March 2012 Cole Bolton—a Brown University graduate of business economics, former associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and research associate at Harvard Business School—was named the new editor-in-chief of "The Onion". "I was never in an improv group, never in a sketch group, never wrote for an "Onion" parody in college", said Bolton in a 2014 interview with comedy publication "Splitsider". "It was just sort of a decision that I decided, two years out of college, that I didn’t like where I was going in my life, and I wanted to do something that I cared about more, so I ended up just sending stuff in to "The Onion"."