AEASP 2025 Fellow Olivia Mooney

Olivia Mooney is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at Howard University with a focus on health economics. She is a research assistant at the Center for an Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society as well as an economics tutor at the Academic Center for Excellence at Howard. She has three years of experience in the private sector as a cost analyst at a Federally Funded Research and Development Center. Her undergraduate degree was in economics with a minor in public health at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. 

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AEASP 2025 Fellow Tewodros Gutema

Tewodros Gutema is a PhD student in Economics at Howard University in Washington, DC, specializing in Development and Labor Economics. He is currently a Graduate Fellow at the Center for Equitable Economy and Sustainable Society (e2s2) at Howard University. Tewodros has six years of experience in teaching and research at a public university, as well as in the banking sector. He holds an MSc in Economic Policy Analysis, a BSc in Statistics, and a BA in Economics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

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AEASP 2025 Fellow Christen Black

Christen Black is a second-year Ph.D. student in Economics at Howard University, specializing in labor and urban economics. He earned his master's degree from Old Dominion University, where he conducted research at the Dragas Center for Economic Analysis and Policy, focusing on real-world policy issues through advanced data analysis in R. Chris also brings valuable teaching experience from his time at his alma mater Hampton University.

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Tyrone Finch

Tyrone A. Finch II, a Spring '24 graduate, has earned his Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from The University of New Mexico. Aiming to delve deeper into the realm of economics, Tyrone is pursuing a Master of Economics at the same institution, specializing in quantitative analysis, and intends to obtain a PH.D after.

 

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Jon Zhao

Jon Zhao graduated with majors in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Minnesota Morris. He has experience working as a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant. In his free time, he likes to play tennis, travel to new places, and try new foods. He is excited to be a part of the AEASP and meet other students. 

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Kevin Vega

Kevin Vega is a student at the University of Georgia pursuing a B.A. in International Affairs and Economics with an emphasis in Public Policy. Kevin is involved outside the classroom as a tutor for U-LEAD, where he helps underrepresented students in Athens-Clarke County. At UGA, he works with the PROPEL Rural Scholars program, collaborating with county officials in rural areas to advance rural development initiatives.

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Mason Thieu

Mason Thieu is a third-year undergraduate at Princeton University studying economics, with minors in applied and computational mathematics; statistics and machine learning; and computer science. He is currently working on a junior research paper investigating the effect of extracurricular involvement on juvenile delinquency.

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Gabriel Solis

Gabriel Solis is a junior studying Economics and Mathematics at the University of Southern California. As an aspiring economist, he hopes to harness the tools of economics to rigorously answer the questions that impact the health and welfare of vulnerable communities. He is the data science lead for Dr. Benjamin Graham's Security and Political Economy (SPEC) lab and is interested in industrial economics, health economics, and applied microeconomic theory.

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AEASP 2024 Scholar Wilbens Siguineau

Wilbens, currently pursuing a degree in Public Management at The Bush School, Texas A&M, holds a bachelor's degree in economics, specializing in statistics, from the Centre de Techniques de Planification et d'Économie Appliquée in Haiti. With a background in economics, Wilbens has worked extensively as a monitoring and evaluation specialist with various public and nonprofit organizations, including Catholic Relief Services and the Center for Facilitation of Investment in Haiti. He has also served as an economist at the Haitian Central Bank.

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AEASP 2024 Scholar James Sieja

A third-year student at Mississippi State University studying business economics with a minor in data science. I've always been fascinated by all things economics and plan to pursue a graduate degree in the future. It seems as if every field within economics interests me to some extent, but the fields that fascinate me the most are econometrics and behavioral economics. I'm beyond grateful for this opportunity and am excited to develop my academic and research skills even further!

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