AEASP 2023 Scholar Josephine Oshagbemi
Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Josephine (Yetunde) Oshagbemi is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. At UMBC, she pursued a Mathematics Honors degree with a minor in Economics. She was also an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and held two research assistant positions with faculty at UMBC. Her broad research interests are primarily in development and applied microeconomics. She hopes to ultimately address microeconomic issues of gender inequality and wealth disparities in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Alan is a research assistant at the California Policy Lab, where he studies the effects of the social safety net on education and health outcomes. His previous work included research on the COVID-19 pandemic and college enrollment and the impact of universal Pre-Kindergarten on long-term economic outcomes.
AEASP 2023 Scholar Anthony Montano
My name is Anthony Montano. I'm currently a senior studying Economics and Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with an expected graduation in Spring 2024. Coming into the AEA Summer Program, I'm hoping to further expand my knowledge and ability to critically analyze problems that graduate training in Economics addresses. I find a lot of my interests based in the quantitative realm when it comes to data collection, cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
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Sophie Pinkston is a rising junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill double majoring in economics and statistics and analytics. She is a research assistant for the UNC Sociology Department and works in the intersection of policy and social movements. After being a part of her school’s Fed Challenge Team (a mock Federal Reserve competition team), she has developed a strong interest in macroeconomics in particular.
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I am a senior at New Mexico State University and will be graduating in May 2023 with a Bachelor of Business in Economics. I served as the secretary of the College Assistance Migrant Program Student Council in my freshman year, and as the vice president in my sophomore year. My research experience has been on the impact of migrant farmworkers' backgrounds, as well as energy economics.
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Diamondnia Mack is an alumna at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she earned her B.S. in Economics with a minor in Anthropology. Her interests include international economics and climate policy with a focus on racial and gender issues. Diamondnia is the Founder of The Brown Moon Project, an environmental justice initiative dedicated to examining the impact of water scarcity and poor climate and economic policy on Black and Brown women around the world.
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Nidhi Nair graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2022, with degrees in Economics and Mathematics-Statistics. Nidhi served as the President of the UConn Undergraduate Economics Society and as the founding director of the Invisible Hand Speaker Series, an annual conference hosted at UConn with the goal of bringing diverse scholars and researchers to speak on campus.
AEASP 2023 Scholar Michael Garcia
Michael Garcia is a senior studying Economics at the University of California, Berkeley while minoring in Public Policy. His lived experience fuels his passion for social justice. During his time at Cal, he has worked with the Berkeley Underground Scholars supporting the needs of formerly incarcerated and system-impacted individuals as a policy advocate, transfer coordinator, and ambassador coordinator. He is also an undergraduate researcher for the Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley and has completed multiple research projects.
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Alejandra Guadarrama-Mojica is a rising junior double majoring in economics and mathematics. Originally from Mexico City, she is interested in development economics and environmental economics. She plans to pursue a Ph. D. in economics to learn more about the forces that shape our world and use her skills to craft policy and do consulting work. In her free time, she likes to go running, embroider, dance, and spend time with friends.
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My name is John Saunders. I am a Junior at the University at Buffalo, majoring in Mathematics and Economics. My research interests currently are in salience of risk and joint decision making. I plan to pursue a Ph.D. in economics and hopefully either become a part of academia or find work in policy formation. Some interesting facts about me are, I am a cellist of 12 years and a language enthusiast. I am currently studying French, and I recently became a member of the French Honors Society Pi Delta Phi.
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