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.

Ariel grew up in Washington Heights in New York, where racial, economic, and geographic inequities first spurred their interest in public service. Their work on drag performers’ economic lives won Wesleyan University’s prize for best Sociology thesis and they continue to research and write on the political economy of nightlife. At Abt Associates, Ariel served as Deputy Project Director for for an evaluation of USDA’s Summer EBT program and as Lead Programmer for CFPB analyses of the pandemic’s economic effects, among other policy research projects. They were then a Program Officer in the New York City Office of Financial Empowerment, where they co-managed the country’s largest municipal financial counseling program and studied trends in New Yorkers’ financial lives. This past summer, Ariel worked at The Democracy at Work Institute in Brooklyn as a Worker Ownership Cities Intern. In their free time, Ariel pursues interests in housing justice, biking, solidarity economics, and science fiction.

Juliet grew up in Petaluma, California, and attended Barnard College, where she studied economics with a focus in political economy. Since college, she has worked as an Analyst for the New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget in the Tax Policy and Revenue Forecasting Task Force. Her portfolio centered around forecasting sales, utility, hotel, and corporate business tax revenues to inform the City's budget. She has been involved in community organizing in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, fighting displacement and exploitation, and serves as a board member of National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS). She looks forward to a career putting research in tax, labor, and housing policy to good use for working people. She spent the summer before Princeton driving across the country and exploring as many National Parks as she could.

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.