

Shivani Persaud is a journalist by trade, pursuing an Interdisciplinary MA at the University of Central Florida with concentrations in Communications, Intelligence/National Security, and Crime Analysis.
Her repertoire includes communications roles with NASA, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and more. She is also a 2022 alum of the NPR Next Generation Radio Florida Newsroom Project, which focused on digital and audio journalism for the theme of climate change, and the former editor-in-chief of The Phoenix literary-art magazine, which was awarded a Silver Crown by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in 2019.
A Queens, NY native, she is also a trained Indian classical and professional musician.