Tanya Shah

Tanya Shah SEAS '14 majored in Biomedical Engineering with a minor in English and Comparative Literature. She was an elected member of the Engineering Student Council throughout her college tenure, and served as the Vice President of Policy during her senior year. She also worked as a Resident Adviser for three years.

Student Council

Tanya's student council career started unluckily when she set the record for number of ties in a freshman popular election by tying twice. She was eventually elected as the Class of 2014 Representative. She was elected the Vice President of Policy in her senior year as a member of the party PSet 150.

Tanya's work on the Policy Committee included the following initiatives:

• Good Samaritan Policy (Responsible Community Action Policy)
  • Tanya helped Logan Donovan in her push to institute a Good Samaritan Alcohol and Drug Use Policy at Columbia University
  • Their work here eventually led to the institution of the Responsible Community at Columbia (RC@C) alcohol education that replaced alchohol.edu as a first-year requirement
• SEAS Pass/Fail
  • Along with Logan and Sheila Misheni, Tanya helped draft and institute a new SEAS Pass-Fail Policy
• SEAS Honor Code
  • With Robert Ying, Harry Munroe, and graduate students, she helped with draft and implement a Columbia Engineering honor code

Preceded by Bora Kim

ESC Vice President of Policy  2013-2014

Succeeded by Incumbent