Cornell · Ithaca
I study how policy, healthcare, and community work in practice—not only on paper. This spring I'm in Omaha for Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, listening and learning from people who have spent decades building durable organizations.
Introduction
Celine Song
Impact, to me, is measured where a system actually meets a person—volume when it scales, and depth when it doesn't.
My thread is simple: I care about what happens to people when systems touch their lives— in a clinic, a hearing room, or a classroom. I've worked in veterinary ophthalmology, on global device launches, in antitrust research, and on Capitol Hill—each time trying to learn how decisions upstream become outcomes downstream.
Outside formal roles, I write and research around breast cancer experiences in China, and I've spent years on a community health initiative supporting education access. I'm drawn to work that pairs rigor with empathy.
A few anchors from internships, service, and independent work—shorthand for scope, not the whole story.
Resume-backed highlights
Single global med-device summit
500+ partners · 40 countries
CEO / principal schedules coordinated
Cross-border event production
Constituent emails & letters
Capitol Hill front desk
M&A & concentration cases indexed
Top-tier China antitrust practice
Survivor interviews → article reads
Narrative health work
UC Davis (transfer)
Now Cornell, Arts & Sciences
The arc from grassroots outreach to rooms where capital and policy move—still asking the same question: who gets heard when the stakes are high?
2025 —
College of Arts & Sciences
Deepening the through-line from clinical and policy work into a coherent academic frame: how institutions allocate care, attention, and voice.
2025
New Ruipeng · MicroPort
One summer spanned hands-on ophthalmology workflows and a distribution conference scaled to hundreds of partners—bridging animal patients in Beijing with executive calendars across dozens of countries.
2023 — 2024
JunHe · Rep. Watson Coleman · Stanford project
Built research infrastructure for complex transactions; translated hearings into briefings for elected office; ran qualitative interviews on treatment culture with faculty—three lenses on how rules and norms land on real lives.
2015 — present
Education initiative · breast cancer writing · Madeira
Raised resources for girls’ education across China and Africa; published survivor-centered stories; represented a boarding school to families worldwide—practice in long-horizon trust-building.
One hundred voices
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If we cross paths in Omaha—or you'd simply like to compare notes on healthcare, policy, or narrative work—I'd love to hear from you.
© 2026 Celine Song. Built for conversation, not noise.