Rohan Naik
Yale
Queen's University Belfast (QUB)
Media/Journalism/Writing
Rohan is in his last year of law school at Columbia. After graduation he will be working in the corporate group at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York. He studied Public History at Queen's University Belfast as a Mitchell Scholar. His background is as a journalist and researcher. He worked on a Netflix documentary series about the 14th amendment. Originally from Houston, he graduated from Yale, 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. In collaboration with the city of New Haven, Rohan also founded a gun buyback program.