ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rajeshwari B. R. is first author on ‘Kinetics of Arf1 inactivation regulates Golgi organization and function in non-adherent fibroblasts’, published in BiO. Rajeshwari is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Nagaraj Balasubramanian at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune, investigating the role of cell-matrix adhesion in regulating the Golgi organization and function.