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Katia Bautista
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be joining Heitman as a Financial Operations and Analysis Associate in Chicago!
Gleb Blekher
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Behavioral and experimental economics
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Balancing school, sport, and social life
Nicholas Boucher
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be joining Greenhill & Co. as an Investment Banking Analyst.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Lectures given by Professor Christiano and Professor Ogawa were certainly memorable.
Phoebe Cahill
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working at Vista Equity Partners in Chicago.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
My favorite ECON memory is working with my friends on problem sets.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
My proudest achievement at Northwestern is writing my history honors thesis.
Emily Callahan
What are your plans post-graduation?
I’ll be working as a Finance Law Analyst at Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago before attending law school!
Yuyue Chen
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working as an investment banking analyst at Houlihan Lokey in their New York office.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Learning about game theory and auctions in Econ 310-2
Yueer (Jessica) Cheng
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will join McKinsey as a Business Analyst.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Learning about art, museum, music, etc. in Econ of arts and culture!
Emma Chiu
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working in economic research in New York City.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Meeting new people and finding a supportive community through Womxn in Economics!
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Completing my honors thesis!
Emilya Ershtein
What are your plans post-graduation?
New York Fed Research Analyst
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Professor Christiano’s explaining the shifting of the DD curve using Wile E Coyote running off cliff.
Mingyi Gong
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working as a consulting associate.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Taking Economics of Data with Professor Annie Liang, which allows me to approach a familiar topic with Econ perspective.
Yida Hao
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working in actuarial consulting in Chicago!
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Meeting some of my best friends in 310-1 and struggling over the psets together!
Duke Lin
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be returning to Morgan Stanley as an associate in the Chicago office!
Theodore Mahlum
What are your plans post-graduation?
I am working in Finance in New York City.
Lauren Malenfant
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in Chicago!
What is your favorite ECON memory?
I have been part of Northwestern’s Undergraduate Economics Society through all four years of college and have loved being able to interact with economics faculty, staff, and students behind-the-scenes to plan speaker events and panels, and student/faculty socials. It was definitely one of the highlights of my econ experience!
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
My proudest achievement is my work as a part of the Wildcat Welcome Board of Directors—I trained 22 Peer Advisors to help their new students successfully navigate orientation, and created informative summer content for the new students as they geared up for their time at Northwestern.
Josh Miller
What are your plans post-graduation?
Investment Banking at William Blair & Company.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Behavioral Economics with Prof. Schulz.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
I feel I became smarter, sharper, and better prepared to take on the world as a result of spending time here.
Maia Miller
What are your plans post-graduation?
Joining United Airlines as an Associate Analyst in Pricing and Revenue Management in Chicago.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Co-founding the Personal Finance Student Association to promote financial literacy through workshops, events, and community.
Kyla Neely
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Taking Economics of Social Policy with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, which is when I fell in love with learning more about the intersection of policy and economics.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Being selected as a SESP Convocation Co-Chair!
Lily Nevo
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working as a research assistant at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
My proudest achievement at Northwestern would probably be choreographing The Dolphin Show, which is the largest student-produced musical in the country. This year, the show was Kinky Boots, a very dance-heavy musical, so I spent a lot of time working on choreography for nearly every song in the show. The cast and the rest of the production team were awesome, and the final product was something I will remember for the rest of my life.
Jhil Patel
What are your plans post-graduation?
Taking a gap year before applying to graduate school!
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Definitely Prof. Hornsten’s ECON of Arts and Culture Class. As a double-major in Theatre, this was one of the most fulfilling and interesting classes that I’ve taken at NU!
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
I am most proud of my contribution to the Wildcat Welcome Board of Directors—I developed the training curriculum for 220+ Peer Advisers, trained a group of 21 Peer Advisors in a “Board Group,” and feel that I made very tangible contributions to the new student experience at NU!
Alex Perry
What are your plans post-graduation?
I’ll be reporting on technology for The Wall Street Journal.
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Any class with Prof. Sara Hernández-Saborit!
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Being voted by a group of my peers to be the alternate undergraduate commencement speaker at this year’s ceremony!
Allison Pokoski
What is your favorite ECON memory?
My favorite part about majoring in economics is how transferable the course content is to the real world. Being able to take electives in areas that I am especially interested in (i.e. Behavioral, Gender, Arts and Culture, and the Environment) provides a new perspective on familiar topics, and makes the classes so memorable!
Angel Rivero
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be returning to Bank of America’s Global Corporate and Investment Bank as a full-time analyst.
Kaitlyn Shi
What are your plans post graduation?
I will be working in New York City as a business analyst at Capital One in their two-year rotational program and then potentially going to law school.
Laura Solano-Florez
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working at Citi as a corporate analyst for the Natural Resources and Clean Energy Transition (NRCET) group in Houston!
What is your favorite ECON memory?
I loved taking Mark Witte’s Environmental Economics. I grew up around the energy sector in Saudi Arabia, but I had never really explored the topic of energy and environmental issues before this class. Learning about the intersection of economics and environmental issues sparked my interest in the field and led to me pursuing my post-graduation job.
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
I am really proud to have been a microeconomics TA for Professor Hernandez and a Peer Guided Study Group leader. Intro to microeconomics was one of my favorite classes at NU and I loved working with new economics students to help them better understand the concepts that come up in many other economics courses. It was an incredibly rewarding experience!
Rachel Spahn
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Meeting my best friend, Charlotte Konopko, in our first-year seminar on the economics of gender!
Andrea Spector Colcher
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working in consulting at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
Carlos Vasquez
What are your plans post graduation?
Consulting-Bain & Company
What is your favorite ECON memory?
Discussing currency crises in Econ 362
What is your proudest achievement at Northwestern?
Finishing my Honors thesis
Steven Wilke
What are your plans post graduation?
Working as Higher Ed Research analyst for Huron Consulting Group, and playing violin in the Quad City Symphony!
What is your favorite ECON memory?
All the Northwestern Economics Tournaments I’ve helped plan over the years!
Savannah Zhou
What are your plans post-graduation?
I will be working at JPMorgan in New York!