{"id":26462,"date":"2026-04-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26462"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:31:53","slug":"arpi-keshishian-vrg-scholarship-winner-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/arpi-keshishian-vrg-scholarship-winner-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Arpi Keshishian, VRG Scholarship Winner Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Arpi-Keshishian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Arpi-Keshishian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Arpi-Keshishian.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Arpi-Keshishian-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to update you all on my wins throughout my time at University of California San Diego. In June 2025, I graduated with a dual major in Political Science &amp; Data Analytics (BS) and Global Health (BA) + a minor in Climate Change Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Through my time at UCSD, plant-based and sustainable food advocacy was extremely important to me. Luckily, I was able to work at UCSD&#8217;s Sustainability Team and serve as a Sustainable Food Procurement Fellow through UC\u2019s Office of the President.\u00a0With these roles, I worked on a range of sustainability projects including creating plant-based educational resources, increasing plant-based options at UCSD\u2019s markets, and most recently (as of Sep. 2025): eliminating the upcharge on ALL plant-based milks served at UCSD\u2019s coffee bars!<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have graduated, I hope to continue plant-based advocacy\u00a0throughout my career.\u00a0\u00a0I am so grateful for the support from VRG since my time in high school, and really appreciate all you do!<\/p>\n<p>See Arpi&#8217;s VRG scholarship information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/california-student-arpi-keshishian-wins-10000-vegetarian-resource-group-scholarship\/\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/05\/17\/california-student-arpi-keshishian-wins-10000-vegetarian-resource-group-scholarship\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For information on other winners and applying to VRG\u2019s annual scholarship contest, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/scholar.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to update you all on my wins throughout my time at University of California San Diego. In June 2025, I graduated with a dual major in Political Science &amp; Data Analytics (BS) and Global Health (BA) + a minor in Climate Change Studies. Through my time at UCSD, plant-based and sustainable food advocacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26464,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26462\/revisions\/26464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}