DESIRE TO HELP Interview with Veronica Meinhard, Ohio State's First Lady by Rolando Rubalcava Doctoral Candidate, English
“When I was little, I absolutely adored and worshipped my grandfather. My grandfather was a physician, a surgeon. We were very, very close… we lost him when I was fourteen, and I used to carry around his medicine bag” Verônica Meinhard 16
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arlier this year, I sat down with Veronica Meinhard, philanthropist, swimmer, and First Lady of The Ohio State University. It’s never easy to have a chance to meet Latinx leaders in academia, in part because there are so few. To have a chance to sit down and interview one was a highlight during my time as Editor for our magazine. Mrs. Meinhard shared with QuePasa Magazine her experience moving to Columbus, Ohio and what it has been like. The dark cloud over this experience came from a public health crisis no one could have planned for: the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time of this interview, she has been at OSU while never seeing swaths of students walking up and down campus, or having a preference between Jeni’s or Grater’s Ice Cream.
