Tiffany Yau is a College junior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Sociology and concentrating in Health and Medicine. She is the Founder of Alpha Kappa Delta (Epilson of PA). She is a member of the Penn Women’s Golf Team, an NCAA Division I team. In addition to being a student-athlete, Tiffany also has a strong interest in nonprofit. She is the Campus Director of Hult Prize at the University of Pennsylvania— in partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative–the largest student organization in the world that specifically organizes case competitions tackling highly pressing social issues. This past year, she was able to raise over $7,000 for the competition and fund for all teams advancing to the Regional level, while also recruiting the most esteemed world-renowned leaders including a United Nations member. Tiffany aspires to create disruptive change, to make a positive impact on the world and the millions of lives that live in it, to do something infinitely greater than ourselves. As she herself says, “I choose to believe that broader positive change begins on a small scale and lies in the individual or an idea no matter how small it may seem to be.”

Tiffany Rodriguez is a College senior at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Sociology, with a concentration in Health and Medicine, and a minor in Bioethics. She co-founded AKΔ at Penn along with Tiffany Yau. She aspires to become a lawyer, ideally in healthcare law. Tiffany became interested in sociology because of its applicability to all other subjects. As someone who was interested in the intersection between law, policy, and medicine, sociology bridged the gap in understanding how all those factors work together. Her interests include anything Harry Potter related, bingewatching everything on Netflix, and eating ice cream at all hours of the day.
Favorite quote: “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

As one of the oldest sociology departments in the country, Penn Sociology has inspired numerous sociologists throughout history and attracts distinguished, award-winning faculty members who are leaders and experts in their field. W.E.B. Du Bois, Erving Goffman, Dorothy Swaine Thomas, and E. Digby Baltzell all broke new sociological ground while working at the University of Pennsylvania and our current faculty is following their illustrious example.

With University support, our top-ranked Department has been able to recruit some of the best graduate students in the country and expanded the University of Pennsylvania’s highly-regarded undergraduate program.

Today, the Department preserves its tradition of research and training by a very active interaction between faculty, students, and visitors. We continue to push forward to advance our understanding of past, present, and future society.

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