Sofia Rodriguez-Tucker

My perspective is shaped by the resilience of my family. Growing up in New York City, I watched my Puerto Rican single mother—a 9/11 breast cancer survivor who battled through treatments as COVID-19 hit NYC—navigate a world of immense professional challenges. Seeing her strength, and understanding the sacrifices made by frontline workers in my community, inspired me to look beyond classroom theories and ask fundamental questions about the intersection of culture, identity, and economic equity. This inspiration led me to create The Latina Wage Gap Project while at Saint Ann’s High School.

It was my first step in using research to understand and address complex, real-world systems. That same drive now fuels my interdisciplinary work as a junior at Princeton University (Class of 2027), where I am majoring in Spanish with minors in Linguistics and Dance.

I am deliberately building a unique skill set to bridge deep cultural understanding with quantitative analysis. My academic work in Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation is complemented by technical certifications in AI (Vanderbilt) and Blockchain (INSEAD).

My goal is to apply this unique combination of lived experience, cultural fluency, and technical skill to the world of global finance. I am focused on developing new frameworks for the valuation and preservation of digital and intangible assets, ensuring that the value of cultural legacies can be sustainably secured and enhanced.