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Avik Roy (; Bengali: অভীক রায়) is an American conservative commentator and activist.

Education and early career

Roy was born in Rochester, Michigan, to Indian immigrant parents, and attended high school in Beverly Hills, Michigan and San Antonio, Texas.^[1] In his senior year he was named a first team member of the 1990 USA Today All-USA High School Academic Team, awarded to the twenty best performing academic students in the country.^[2] In his college years, Roy studied molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[3] In 1993, during Roy's term as a writer for the MIT student publication Counterpoint, he was unsuccessfully sued for defamation by Trinidadian Africana studies professor Tony Martin, after publishing an article detailing past controversies surrounding Martin.^[4][5] Roy then attended the Yale School of Medicine.

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