About Sapphira

“Try changing your perspectives looking at things; be amazed at how things you look at CHANGE.”

Wharton Feature Story & Google Feature Story

Professionalism

• 2023 Summer Intern, Manhattan HQ of Point72 Asset Management
• 2022 Summer Intern, Manhattan HQ of Soros Fund Management
• 2021 Summer Intern, Manhattan HQ of MSCI (formerly Morgan Stanley Capital Int’l)
• 1st Place Winner, 2021 Morgan Stanley Global Future Asset Managers Simulation

Teamwork

• Founder, Penn Innovation Network (PIN) & Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network (DWEN@Penn)
• Chair & US Northeast Rep, Google DSC North America Leads Advisory Committee
• Sole Ivy League student speaker, Google North America Connect Conference 2023
• President, Google Developer Student Clubs – University of Pennsylvania Chapter (since 2022)
• Co-Chair, Siemens Campus Connect Global Advisory Board & Realize LIVE featured speaker
• Inaugural Undergrad Senior Fellow, Wharton ESG Initiative (Wharton ESG Feature)
• Inaugural Chair, Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network Global Collegiate Advisory Forum
• Inaugural Chair, Intel oneAPI Global Student Marketing Advisory Board
• Ivy League Featured Champion Athlete, NCAA Div I Fencer, & USA Fencing 3-Weapon Referee
• 3rd season Resident Advisor, Gutmann College House (formerly New College House West)

Passion

As the worlds of finance and tech accelerate a 360 convergence sharing ESG values, it is vital for Wharton/UPenn student clubs to offer unique hands-on opportunities bridging the gaps between book knowledge and real-life solutions.

PIN, Google DSC, and DWEN welcome membership and leadership from both graduate students and undergraduates.

PIN, the first ESG innovation-focused student club on campus, is the campus ambassador/liaison for global corporate ESG majors like Y Combinator, Siemens, Intel, Comcast, Paramount, etc., whereas DWEN@Penn exemplifies Dell’s entrepreneurial drive. PIN has been launching training seminars and recruiting sessions for fellow Quakers and Whartonites. This has resulted in dozens of well-received resume drops, and final interviews/offers of rewarding internship opportunities in the tech/finance space.

Google DSC@Penn is designed for all students interested in Google Developer technologies. Via training sessions, Google DSC members learn to grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer innovative environment and build actionable solutions for local businesses and communities.

Sapphira is an FIE World Cup saber fencer, NCAA Division I Athlete and Ivy League Featured Champion fencer at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 2024, Quakers Women Fencing Team won 1st place at Ivy League Championship. At age 11, she became the youngest female three-weapon official referee in USA Fencing’s 130+ years of history. At age 14, she achieved USA Fencing Division I status and debuted at an FIE Senior World Cup as the youngest Asian saber fencer. A year later, she won a gold medal at the 2019 Senior Team North American Cup and became the youngest female Connecticut fencer to win gold in the history of Senior North American Cups. At age 16, she debuted at two Tokyo 2020 Olympic Qualifiers in Orleans, France and Salt Lake City, Utah. Shortly thereafter, Sapphira graduated high school claiming both the honors of the Cum Laude Society of 1906* and USA Fencing 4-Year All-Academic First Team**.

Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Sapphira has traveled to 85+ cities in 25+ countries making new friends, tasting different cuisines, learning diverse cultures and discovering inspirations… like:

“Talent plus practice win tournaments; teamwork plus collaboration win championships.”

“Profits are not evil; neither is Adam Smith. Only matters what you do with them.”

“Humility is the foundation of all virtues.”

Since 2011, she has been promoting sports for kids in underserved communities while sponsoring toddlers from the US Appalachia. She also avidly volunteered at the Save the Children Foundation.

Whenever free, she enjoys laughing with friends, reading, watching anime and Marvel/DC movies, playing Esports, dancing to K-Pop and Halsey, watching Formula 1 races… while daydreaming about a future where everything is powered by solar, wind, water and hydrogen, and every kid will make friends around the world by competing in Formula E with the help of AI and VR!

_{*The Cum Laude Society of 1906, modeled after Phi Beta Kappa of 1776, is an honors society dedicated to celebrating scholastic achievements of top secondary/high school graduates. Through its 382 chapters in public and private schools in the USA, Canada, England, France, Spain, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, roughly 4,000 new members are inducted annually – approximately 0.02% of total yearly secondary/high school graduates in member nations.}

**_{Sapphira was 1 of 15 awardees who not only earned 4 years of the USA Fencing All-Academic First Team honors in a row, but also committed to an NCAA Division I college program. Less than 2% of a total of 764 First Team awardees that year were in this scholar-athlete category.}