Bio

Shu Yi Zhou-Trzcinski is the Cross-Disciplinary Program Manager at Yale Young Global Scholars. Her love for STEM and the social sciences is rooted in her research at Columbia University. Her research focused on understanding why certain societies and cultures promote the practice of skin bleaching, the history of skin color and societal status, and the molecular and physiological effects of the bleaching agent hydroquinone.

Before Yale, Shu Yi worked at Minds Matter, a national college access nonprofit, and led a nationwide summer programs initiative, sending over 600 high-achieving, low-income students to pre-collegiate summer programs worldwide each year.

Shu Yi graduated from the University at Albany with a B.S. in Human Biology and received her Ed.M. in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also serves as a Trumbull Fellow at Yale.

She’s passionate about empowering youth activists and centering student voices in her work. In her spare time, she can be seen crocheting, gardening, or going on walks with Kiko, her rescue pup from Azerbaijan.