Shiqi Shen

Credentials: MA

Position title: 4W Project Assistant

Email: shiqi.shen@wisc.edu

Shiqi Shen, Project Assistant for the 4W Initiative and Global Human Ecology, is on her journey toward a PhD in Civil Society and Community Research at the School of Human Ecology. Originally from Suzhou, China, Shiqi is a daughter, sister, wife, and first-generation college student. Before joining UW-Madison, she worked with a grassroots NGO to promote education justice in rural China. Shiqi holds a Master’s in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University. Her research is centered on youth development, focusing on the moral and civic identity of young people, especially Indigenous college students and their practices of reciprocity at land-grant institutions.