Shiva Goyal

Founder & Executive Director / Research Assistant / Volunteer

949-591-6885 • shiva.goyal@icloud.com humanizing-humans.com

 

About Me

Compassionate, curious, person committed to service and aspiring to be a future physician.

 
Education

Princeton University, 2025

·        Mexican Immigration Research

University High School, Irvine, California

·        GPA: 4.38 W

·        PSAT: 1490 (223 index)

·        ACT: 35

·        SAT: 1560

·        AP Pre-Calculus: 5

·        AP US History: 5

·        AP English Lang: 5

·        AP World History: 5

·        AP Calculus BC: 5

·        AP Psychology: 5

·        AP Spanish Lang: 4

 
Awards

University High School, Magna Cum Laude: 2023, 2024, 2025

National Merit Scholarship, Commendation, 2025

International Neuroethics Society Essay Contest, Honorable Mention, 2025

AATSP Exam, National Spanish Exam Level 2 & 3: 98th Percentile, Level 5: 94th percentile, 2023-2025

AP Scholar with Distinction, 2025

Model United Nations, Delegate & Research Awards, 2022-2024

 
Skills

Communication

Public speaking

Teaching

Research

Writing

 

Languages

English

Spanish

 

 

Experience

Founder & Executive Director of Humanizing Humans, June 2025-Present

501(c)(3) nonprofit promoting inclusion and acceptance of the neurodivergent community through sharing narrations and creating connections

 

Princeton Research Assistant, Jul-Nov 2025

Analysis of the patterns of 20th century US-Mexico migration

 

Research Assistant, National Study on Neurodiversity Disorders – India, Summer 2025-Present

Analysis of neurodiversity disorders in India in partnership with National Institute For The Empowerment of Persons With Intellectual Disabilities (NIEPID), Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) and United Nations

 

Ethics Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine, Summer 2024

Analysis of the history and psychology of genocide

 

Patient Visit Assistant, Royal Columbian Hospital, Vancouver, Summer 2024

Patient intake assistant in ICU, Recovery, Renal Dialysis, Maternity & ER

 

Spanish Tutor, 2025

Peer Spanish tutor selected by AP Spanish language teacher

 

Tennis Coach, 2023 - Present

Tennis coach to middle and high school students

 

Volunteering

Business Operations Coordinator & Tennis Coach, Serving Advantage, 2024 - Present

Team leader, tennis coach and volunteer for regional autism support organization teaching adaptive tennis

 

Marketing Coordinator, USTA Southern California, Youth Leadership Council, 2023 - Present

Write articles and create infographics for youth blog to promote tennis to those without access

 

Coach, Tidal Waves Swim Team, Summer 2023

Volunteer swim coach for children ages five to seventeen

 

Extra-Curricular Activities

Varsity Player, University High School Tennis Team

#1 ranked high school tennis team in nation

 

President, University High School Best Buddies

Foster friendship with special education students at school and spread awareness and inclusion of neurodivergent community to student body with distribution of wrist bands in a school-wide online challenge

 

Vice President, University High School Spanish Club

Promote Hispanic & Latin American culture; organize tutoring sessions