Shaquana Simpson

Professional Bio

Shaquana is a fourth-year student double majoring in Psychology and Criminology. Shaquana is a Chaiken Scholar and a resident assistant.

As a first-generation student and the first in her family to navigate the American college system, Shaquana found the transition stressful and overwhelming. She was nervous about figuring out how to handle college life, and without her peer mentors' guidance through the Chaiken Center, she says that she does not think she would have been as successful in navigating her first year. Now she plans to pay it forward by helping students like her.