Princeton Profiles: Tyler Simko, Finding Opportunities to Serve

For Tyler Simko, politics is more than just a major: It is a means of effecting change in his community.

Simko, who graduated in June with high honors in politics and earned a certificate in statistics and machine learning, came to Princeton from South Amboy, New Jersey, where he was his high school valedictorian. Not only was Simko the first in his family to attend a four-year college, he was the first student from South Amboy Public Schools to attend an Ivy League university.

His experience as a student in the school district inspired him to run for the district’s board of education in 2013.

Read more about Simko's political and scholarly experiences here.