Profiles of Current Students: 2010-2011

Tufts MS students with Professor Robert Solow at a lecture in April 2010.

Mikal Davis, First Year Student
Mikal graduated from the University of New Mexico in 2010 with a BA in economics and philosophy. For the past several years, he has worked with the non-profit, Amigos de las Americas in various capacities, most recently as the Director a summer-long youth development project in the Dominican Republic. His work with Amigos has sparked an interest in Development Economics and Applied Microeconomics. His hobbies include ultimate frisbee and mountain biking.

Yu Hu, First Year Student
Yu graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology majoring in Accounting.

Jie Lai, First Year Student
Jie graduated from Wuhan University in 2011. She received a BS in Economics with a concentration in finance and insurance. When she was a junior, she was chosen as an exchange student to the College of Management of National Taiwan University. Her hobbies include reading, travelling and doing sports.

Xueying Lu, First Year Student
Xueying is from Tianjin, China. She received her degree in International Economics and Trade from Renmin University of China.

Arushi Bajaj, Second Year Student
Arushi graduated with a BS in Economics from West Virginia University in 2010. Her internship experiences include working with a research arm of the DoD specializing in the African security sector. This helped her realize the importance of economics in structuring strategic security policies to induce positive socio-economic impacts. Arushi’s research interests include development economics, environmental economics and microeconomics. In her free time, she enjoys catching up on re-runs of the Daily Show and Colbert Report.

Conor Carney, Second Year Student
Conor graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 2007 with a BA in Economics. Following graduation, he worked for three years as a Senior Economic Consultant at Chicago Partners, providing economic support on projects related to antitrust, international trade and investment, labor, technical finance, securities and valuation.
His current research interests are centered around environmental economics, development economics and the crossover between randomized control trials and environmental issues.

Brielle Kissel, Second Year Student
Brielle graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2004 with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business Administration. She is enrolled part-time in the combined degree program with the Economics department and the Urban and Environmental Policy department at Tufts, and is currently working full-time in economics research and policy analysis for a firm in Lexington, MA.

Ana P. Torres, Second Year Student
Ana is a second-year student in the joint degree Master’s program with the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning department. Ana graduated in 2008 from CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico with a BS in Economics. After graduating she worked as research assistant on projects related to public policy evaluation, social mobility and microfinance in Mexico. Her internship experience includes working with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) on the evaluation of financial planning, financial literacy, and investor perceptions of the privatized social security market in Mexico. Her current research interests are urban economics (in particular transportation), environmental justice and sustainable development.

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