Joyce Lee is an Honors College junior in the School of Arts and Sciences with a double major in Sociology and Public Policy. She transitioned from a background in the biomedical sciences, previously having studied transgenerational epigenetics with the Gu Lab in the Rutgers Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is currently a First-Year Interest Group Seminar (FIGS) Peer Instructor for Exploring Sociology. She competes nationally as a presenter for Rutgers Enactus, a social entrepreneurship organization supporting start-up projects that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She is a Policy Advisor for Agoraponic Farms, a start-up aimed towards providing fresh, free produce to food insecure college students. She is also an editor for the Eagleton Undergraduate Political Journal. She hopes to pursue a masters in an interdisciplinary body of research examining genetic sociology or other areas of medical sociology after her undergraduate career, and eventually hopes to become a professor of Sociology. Her research interests include social mobility, health sociology, medical sociology, public health policy, intersectionality, counterculture, and urban vitality. In her free time, she enjoys practicing Taekwondo with the Rutgers Taekwondo Team, making music with friends, and trying fun crafts.
