Kellen Zeng (she/her) with Governor’s Committee for Scholastic Achievement (GCSA)

Kellen Zeng is a lifelong New Yorker, currently residing on Staten Island, and a 2025 graduate of Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business, where she earned her degree in Business Administration with concentrations in Marketing and Digital Media & Technology, a minor in Political Science, and graduated cum laude. Her path into the social sector began as a high schooler, when she found the New York Civil Liberties Union and discovered, for the first time, that young people's voices could be heard by those in power. That experience sent her through nearly a decade of work spanning civil rights advocacy and nonprofit communications.

This summer, Kellen is working with the Governor's Committee on Scholastic Achievement to help recover the organization's institutional history ahead of its 70th anniversary. It is work she finds meaningful in equal parts: the research, the community-building, and the responsibility of getting the storytelling right.

Long-term, Kellen hopes to build a career at the intersection of communications, advocacy, and civil rights, using language and narrative as tools for accountability and change. Outside of work, she can usually be found spending time with her friends, exploring the city, and drinking boba milk tea several times a day.