Grace Liu
Grace C. Liu is a researcher, nonprofit founder, and advocate for expanding educational opportunity. She is the Founder and CEO of Research to Empower, a student-led nonprofit dedicated to making research education accessible to underserved K-12 students worldwide. Through her work, Grace has helped develop free research curricula, workshops, guidebooks, and global youth leadership programs reaching students and educators across dozens of countries. Her research interests include gender equity, entrepreneurship, behavioral economics, and the social impact of technology. Grace has been recognized as a Regeneron STS Scholar, Regeneron ISEF Finalist, and winner of multiple national and international awards for research, leadership, and service. She is passionate about using education, research, and youth-led innovation to create more equitable systems and empower young people to see themselves as changemakers.
The Claes Nobel Future Female Leader Scholarship was established to encourage and empower young women to assume future leadership roles in their colleges and universities, their careers and communities, and to become mentors for the young women following in their footsteps. Leadership doesn’t have to mean being the head of a club. Actions, not titles, make leaders.