Malvika Shrimali ('24) is from Ashburn, VA. They are co-editor in chief of the Gallery literary arts magazine, co-president of Wordshop (a creative writing club), and a member of the South Asian Student Organization and Humans of William & Mary. They are a Hispanic Studies and Environmental Studies double major, and use these fields to examine environmental justice and environmental colonialism. An avid writer and poet, Malvika hopes to become a journalist in the future.

In this interview, Malvika discusses their ability to be a "queer student" in academics at William & Mary. They also describe the interaction between being both queer and Indian and their experiences building community with other queer and Indian students. Malvika writes poetry and makes collages, and they discuss their experience with those art forms, as well as literary clubs at William & Mary. They also describe their coming out experience, including talking to professors about using they/them pronouns.