Rohan Naik, George J. Mitchell Scholarship, Class of 2020

Rohan Naik is a journalist and researcher, currently working on an upcoming Netflix documentary series on the 14th amendment. Originally from Houston, he graduated from Yale earlier this year, where he worked as a reporter for the Yale Daily News and at the New Haven Independent. He was also an intern at the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and ProPublica where he researched and reported stories about air pollution in London and how police in the US respond to hate crimes. As the Head Peer Liaison at the Asian American Center at Yale, he created programming around the stigmatization of mental health issues and directed one of the university’s largest mentorship programs. He was also selected by Yale to conduct sexual violence prevention programming. In collaboration with the city of New Haven, Rohan also founded a gun buyback program. Rohan is interested in researching how society remembers and constructs the past and will study Public History at Queen’s University Belfast.
George J. Mitchell Scholarship, Class of 2020