Jess grew up in Brisbane, Australia before moving to Sydney to work as an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. Starting in February 2020, she was quickly thrown in the deep-end of policymaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has worked in the RBA's IMF team, informing its position on international issues; produced forecasts and scenario analyses using macroeconomic models; and, most recently, analysed the transmission of monetary policy tightening to the real economy via financial markets. She spent most of the summer preparing for the move (AKA rewatching the Real Housewives of New Jersey...), but did manage a week's holiday in California on the way over. At Princeton SPIA, she looks forward to learning from her multidisciplinary peers and exploring her interest in international finance and development.

Born in Philadelphia, Claire (she/they) was raised in New York City and studied economics and mathematics at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. After graduation, they moved back to their hometown to work as a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Claire's interest in criminal legal reform and prison industrial complex abolition led her to her most recent job as a Data Analyst for the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law School, where she conducted research on bail reform, police policy, and conviction review, among other topics. Claire interned this past summer at OneDay Health in Gulu, Uganda. After Princeton, Claire hopes to work with groups doing policy analysis research in areas such as the criminal system, the environment, and housing policy.

Elizabeth is from Bellingham, Washington, and studied economics and political science at Middlebury College. In 2021, Elizabeth moved to Haiti as a field coordinator for a research project on small-scale corruption in the Haitian Ministries. Two weeks afterward, president Jovenel Moise was assassinated. In the ensuing political vacuum, criminal gangs expanded their violent activities, eventually forcing a stop to the project. Elizabeth then became a Human Rights Officer in the United Nations Political Mission in Haiti, where she managed, analyzed, and published data on gang-related human rights abuses, including killings, injuries, and kidnappings. Following her studies at Princeton, Elizabeth hopes to become a political economy practitioner, leveraging data and technology to improve international efforts to combat crime and help weak states strengthen their social contracts.

Dylan grew up in upstate New York and attended SUNY Oswego where he earned a degree in applied mathematics and developed his passion for economics and finance. Following graduation, Dylan moved to Washington, D.C., and began his career at the Federal Reserve as a research assistant analyzing developments in short-term funding markets. After two years, he became an analyst in the Division of Financial Stability where his primary responsibility was to manage the drafting process for the Fed’s public Financial Stability Report. Dylan also supported the Fed’s policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the banking-sector stress that began in March 2023. Before starting at Princeton, Dylan enjoyed some much needed rest and attending Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. As a student, he hopes to learn how to more fully apply his mathematics background to the economic policymaking space and to further explore his interest in policy communications. This past summer, Dylan worked as a Student Volunteer at the U.S. Department of Treasury in Washington.

Faith was born and raised in Los Angeles, a city she holds near and dear to her heart. In 2020, she graduated with a B.A. in international studies from American University in Washington, D.C. After graduating, she worked in anti-war organizing as a congressional lobbyist, primarily focusing on advocacy in favor of nuclear nonproliferation, U.S. military spending cuts, and global climate action. She also serves on the field-building committee of the Ploughshares Fund, a nuclear nonproliferation fund working to expand and organize the nonproliferation movement. Faith is passionate about grassroots organizing and democratizing U.S. foreign policy so that it’s impacted by people in and outside of Washington. At Princeton SPIA, she looks forward to expanding her knowledge of NGO management and organizing tactics. As a Boren Scholar, she plans to return to D.C. after graduate school to work in a national security position in the federal government. But ultimately, she hopes to return to organizing in her home state of California. In her spare time, she enjoys trying new foods and teas, traveling, pop culture analysis, a good baseball game, and the occasional musical.