Toni Airaksinen

Toni Airaksinen, BC 18, is most well known for her involvement in the Columbia University First-Generation Low-Income Partnership (FLIP). During her tenure with FLIP, she managed to garner national media coverage in publications like Bloomberg, NPR, NBC, BBC, The Village Voice, WNYC, Upworthy, among many publications, for her creation of the Columbia University Class Confessions page (CUCC). CUCC is a Facebook page dedicated to bringing awareness to issues that students face like hunger, poverty, homelessness, student loan debt, and other socioeconomic issues.

She left FLIP in the Fall of 2015.

She also works on the revival of The Columbia Lion.