Senior Analyst, U3 Advisors
Philadelphia, PA
Years of Service: 2023-2028

Shannon Griffin is a senior analyst at U3 Advisors, where she works with higher education institutions, hospitals, and other nonprofit organizations to develop community-driven solutions that prioritize equity and inclusion in development projects. Griffin’s previous experience includes a Princeton in Asia Fellowship in Shanghai, China, where she worked in student life and as a teaching fellow at a Chinese-English immersion boarding school. She has worked as a college counselor and community assistant and has certificates in TEFL/TESOL and in restorative justice and mediation.

Griffin majored in Chinese and psychology at Bates, studying the impact of urbanization on China’s ethnic minorities and sustainable tourism. In women’s track and field, she earned NESCAC All-Academic honors and a Bates Senior Scholar Award. At graduation, she received the Alfred J. Wright Foreign Language Award and the Richard V. Wagner Prize in Psychology, and delivered the annual Senior Address at Commencement. Griffin has served as a Bates Fund class agent and on her 5th Reunion Gift Committee. She is a member of the College Key alumni honor society and the Benjamin Mays Black Alumni Society, and has served as a Purposeful Work Job Shadow Sponsor. She lives in Philadelphia.