Samantha Feingold
Samantha “Sammy” Feingold is an incoming freshman at Yale University who plans on majoring in neuroscience and hails from Long Beach, NY. She is soon to graduate high school with an IB Diploma and aspires to become a physician-neuroscientist.
Ever since she was little, the brain has fascinated her. This culminated in Sammy’s volunteer experience with neurodiverse populations at The Hagedorn Little Village School; her founding of the Long Beach Center for Humane Technology, where she hosted a webinar series for her community that covered social media’s effect on the brain. Sammy has also served as a two-time Co-Captain of a fundraising team for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a Student Visionaries of the Year candidate; she completed an internship at her local hospital, which inspired her to start her think tank Fight the Phobia to address and propose the contributing factors and possible solutions to hospital phobias.
Furthermore, Sammy is an avid clarinetist and tenor saxophonist who has participated in NAfME All-Eastern and NYSSMA All-State ensembles. She spends her free time learning new repertoire on her instruments, reading dystopian novels and Dr. Oliver Sacks, doing crossword puzzles, traveling, staying active, and spending time with her family, friends, and goldendoodle.
Claes Nobel Future Female Leader Scholarship encourages and empowers 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.