Riya Mehta

It’s a typical day at Webb when you round the corner and you hear a voice loudly exclaiming, “Oh god I’m late again,” as a girl rushes up from the day student parking lot. She pauses to say hi, and tell you a funny story about her morning, all while continuing to run to class, leaving you with a smile. You’ve just run into the lovable VWS student body president, Riya Mehta. Riya is a social butterfly who believes in brightening everyone’s days. However, even though Riya is easygoing, she’s also a star student who fights for equality and believes that it’s all about the balance in life. Riya has taught us that it’s okay to laugh at ourselves, admitting that she has pretty cringey music taste and an addiction to accidentally cutting all her hair off. As she heads off for a gap semester in Switzerland and then the University of Southern California, we can only hope that one day we will be like her.