Senior Sciaska Ulysse Honored With Women of Color at Penn Award

Women of Color at Penn (WOCAP) has honored Sciaska Ulysse, C’21, with its Undergraduate Student Award. The WOCAP awards recognize work that has promoted education, cultural diversity, and positive change on campus and in the world. Ulysse was honored as an aspiring M.D./M.B.A. who is passionate about attenuating the disparities in health, specifically in women’s health and low-income areas.

Ulysse is majoring in neuroscience with minors in healthcare management and chemistry. Originally from Roselle, New Jersey, she has served in leadership roles in multiple organizations at Penn and is particularly dedicated to increasing representation of Black students in healthcare fields.

During her freshman year, Ulysse joined the Moelis Access Science (MAS) program at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships to better understand and serve the West Philadelphia community and to share her love for the sciences. She also participated in the Educational Pipeline Program, which is a collaborative program between the Netter Center, Perelman School of Medicine, and Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine that provides local high school students from backgrounds underrepresented in the medical field with mentorship and exposure to healthcare careers. This program also helps educate local high school students on how to reduce significant health disparities affecting minorities and their communities. In the last three years, Ulysse has helped introduce neuroscience, cardiology, gastroenterology, and veterinary medicine concepts to students at West Philadelphia High School and Sayre High School through hands-on, inquiry-based activities.

Due to her exceptional work with multiple Netter Center programs, Ulysse was invited to join the Netter Center Student Advisory Board. She has also been contributing to the Minority Association of Pre-Health Students (MAPS) for multiple years, first as the external affairs chair, then as vice president, and this year as president.

Women of Color at Penn is a community of remarkable volunteers who come together to celebrate and promote causes that impact women. Their activities include lecture series, current research, health and finance leadership, the Queen’s Tea, and daylong celebrations and conferences.