Sanjay Singh

Sanjay Singh is a senior Economics major and Aerospace Studies minor. He is a Governor of the Undergraduate Economics Club at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a staff member at the Center for Education Policy and Advocacy (CEPA), which is a student-run advocacy agency of the UMass Student Government Association. After graduation in May, he will be entering the corporate Human Resource Development Program at Liberty Mutual in Boston, MA, complementing his interests in labor economics, human resources, and industrial relations.

Thomas Peake

Thomas transferred to UMass after earning an Associate’s Degree from Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield, MA. He was the 2011-2012 President of the Undergraduate Economics Club and had the privilege of working as a Research Assistant for Dr. Arindrajit Dube over the last year. Tom will be taking a consultant position at Ernst & Young after graduation. Tom spends the majority of his spare time with his pit bull Flora and his heavy metal band Krakatoa. He feels very lucky to have been a part of the UMass Economics Department at such an exciting time.

Jonathan Berke

Jonathan Berke is a junior double majoring in Economics and Psychology. He will be applying to PhD programs in Economics next fall to help him pursue various research interests around risks and incentives. In his free time, Jonathan enjoys slapping bass guitar and playing basketball.

Yazid Alfata

Yazid Alfata is a junior Political Science and Economics double major. He is a member of the International Relations and Model United Nations Club and currently serves as Research Assistant to Professor Nicholas Xenos of the Political Science Department. In the past, Yaz has worked for organizations like Human Rights Watch and MERCY Malaysia. His interests include economic and political development in peace processes and theories of political economy. Following his graduation in May 2014, he plans to pursue a doctoral degree in Political Science concentrating in Political Theory.

Samuel Jordan

Samuel Jordan is a junior at the University of Massachusetts, and is working towards a degree in Economics, with a minor in Computer Science. He is a recent Governor Elect of the Undergraduate Economics Club at UMass, and winner of the 2013 Undergraduate Economic Debate: Developing Countries Should Prefer Open Trade Policies. Currently, Sam is employed as an Assistant Economist at Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), which was founded by former University of Massachusetts Amherst professor George Treyz and specializes in economic modeling, analysis, and consulting. Sam plans to graduate in May of 2014.

James Santucci

James Santucci served as head of the Publication Working Group and as submissions liaison. The latter responsibility involved making an Excel spreadsheet, compulsively checking his email for a month and a half, and generally panicking about vlookup functions. The former involved trying to coordinate meeting times, giving up on that, and hoping that a few periodic emails might convince everyone else to learn publication software well enough that he might not have to. He’s hoping to go to a mathematical economics master’s program as a way to fill the time between undergraduate and graduate education, as if the latter is a sure thing. Someday he hopes to do something good for someone else just to see what it feels like.

Alex Major

Alex Major is an economics and math (statistics) double major with research interests in labor economics, econometrics, and the theory of the firm. He served as a Governor of the Undergraduate Economics Club in ’12-’13 and will again next year. He worked as a research assistant to Professor Marta MurrayClose in the fall of 2012, and he will spend the summer doing an internship with Collective Copies in Amherst, in completion of the Certificate in Applied Economic Research on Cooperative Enterprises. In his spare time he regales children with horror stories of data replications gone wrong, and mumbles about ”institutional memory.” He actually paid money for a Stata license, because he is a strong reciprocator. Everywhere he looks he sees rents.

Aaron Goslee

Aaron W. Goslee is a current undergraduate Economics major, with minors in Mathematics, Chinese, and Art History. His research interests include development economics, auction theory, and the art market. 

Kurt Coleman

Kurt Coleman is an economics and communications major who works at REMI and DJs for WMUA 91.1. He is a Renaissance man, although he would never tell you himself.

Maheen Iqbal

Maheen Iqbal is a senior double majoring in Public Health and Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is currently writing a thesis on the Political Economy of Dams in Pakistan. Her most rewarding internship experiences have been with Corporate Accountability International, a non-profit based in Boston and Dubai Health Authority’s Department of Health Policy and Strategy. Upon graduation, Maheen is aspiring to start her career in the non-profit/think tank sector.

Zan Yang

Zan Yang is a sophomore double major in Economics and Legal Studies. He is a first year member in Undergraduate Economics Club (UEC). As an international student from Shanghai, China, he really enjoys the wonderful experience in UEC. He loves to get involved in the discussions and share thoughts with all the amazing Econ major students. Being a member in the reading group of Massachusetts Undergraduate Journal of Economics (MUJE) is another good opportunity for him to communicate with more students and exchange ideas.

Vickash Mohanka

Vick prefers to remain mysterious.

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