Cassidy Fludd is originally from Stafford, Virginia. Her family is Guyanese and she loves to represent her Caribbean culture by "playing mas” at Caribbean Carnivals and cooking curry food. She enjoys listening to soca music, playing basketball, playing spades, and traveling. She is also is very passionate about racial inequalities, racial identities, police brutality, affirmative action, and black consciousness.
Cassidy graduated from the University of Virginia with a double-major in Afro-American Studies and Anthropology in December 2005. After UVA, she spent a semester in a graduate research program at the University of the West Indies (St. Augustine, Trinidad) through Trinity College. Now, she currently works as an Equal Opportunity Assistant at the Coast Guard Headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
