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Emma Sulkowicz

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Emma Sulkowicz is an American arts student, born in New York in 1992, who gained media attention for carrying a mattress around campus to highlight what she saw as Columbia University’s lack of action to remove her alleged rapist from the campus.

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Aug 2011

Attends Columbia

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At Columbia, Sulkowicz plans to study mechanical physics but ends up studying visual arts instead. She joins Alpha Delta Phi (ADP), Columbia’s co-ed “hipster frat”. As she puts it:

Only the most hipster of the hipster kids can get in.

Sulkowicz and Nungesser, a film fanatic and rower, meet at the fraternity.

He was a nice person; a cool person who was secretly really crazy.

2004

Attends Dalton school

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Sulkowicz attends Dalton school, an exclusive and prestigious private school on the upper east side of Manhattan, where she is an A student and competitive fencer. She enjoys physics greatly and considers completing a physics major in college.

1992

Emma Sulkowicz born in New York

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Sulkowicz is born in New York, to Sandra Leong and Kerry Sulkowicz, psychiatrists from Manhattan. She is of Chinese, Japanese and Jewish descent.