Taylor RuiPing Shennett can be found doing “thirty-plus things at once”.
At the University of Memphis in Tennessee, Taylor RuiPing Shennett can be found doing “thirty-plus things at once”. While majoring in Communication and Social Media Marketing, she is also very involved on campus; “some of my roles are Vice President of Operations for my sorority, Vice-President Marketing for the Student Ambassador Board, and a senator for Student Government Association.” Additionally, she writes and maintains a blog that she began in high school. Adopted from Hunan Province at 9 months and originally raised in Pennsylvania, Taylor later moved to the South where adoption was less common. In her high school of over 2,000 students, only 3 were adopted from China. As a result, her blog became a place to “explore my identity as an adoptee […] I talk about adoption from an adoptee’s view. I write about my adoption and feelings towards it.” In the future, Taylor hopes to combine her passion for social media, marketing, and writing into a career.
Humans of CCI profiled on Facebook in 2017.