John Robert Lewis Scholar
Cohort 2
(2022 - 2023)
Undergraduate Institution: University of South Florida
Graduate Institution: University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health
Occupation: UC Berkeley student, MPH, environmental health science
Career Goals/Interests: -
Current Region: Berkeley, CA
JRL Program Bio: Vaidehi Persad is a second-year student at the University of South Florida majoring
in Chemistry and Economics while double minoring in Public Health and Women
& Gender Studies. She serves as a Senior Justice on her Student Government Judicial branch, interns with Equality Florida’s Safe and Healthy Schools Project, and is a member of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society. Vaidehi is passionate about tackling local inequities in the rural Deep South through bottom-up action.
Oral History Project: An Indo-Caribbean Activist Organizing in the Deep South: Vyanti Joseph
