Featured Talent

Mi is a predoctoral research fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economics Research in Stanford, CA; he holds a BSc in Business and Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna. He previously worked at the European Central Bank and plans a career in academia after completing a PhD in economics. Mi produces YouTube videos on economics with two collaborators, and he hopes to upgrade the team’s production capabilities to continue to improve their content.

Valay is a freshman at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO, studying Economics and Political Science. He has been producing his own videos on YouTube for almost a decade–with a recent focus on economics and business issues. Most at home on stage or in front of a camera, he hopes to turn his love for “performance economics” into a career.

Zev is a senior at Duke University in Durham, NC, studying Economics. He is an active freelance writer for the campus and popular press as well as academic and public policy outlets. Zev plans a career that lets him continue to grow as a writer and commentator, while expanding into other media like podcasts.

Chase grew a school economics club and DECA chapter from 10 to 36 members in a year, writes weekly economics op-eds for the school paper, and served on the Arizona Governor’s Youth Commission. A debater who learned the hard way that one good story can beat a stack of evidence, Chase set out to make economics something people feel, not just read about. The fellowship project, RippleEconomics.org, is an interactive website that shows the true economic complexity behind solving environmental problems—with policy simulators, badges to earn, insights, policy debates, an Ask the Economist feature, and a way to check your own city.

Claire fell for economics after taking AP Macro and AP Micro, plans to study it in college, and is building an economics curriculum to introduce younger students to incentives, opportunity cost, and marginal thinking. An experienced podcaster and video maker, Claire also led the writing for a team podcast-script competition entry that used fried chicken to explore economic ideas. The fellowship project is a short-form video series on the economics of buying a prom dress—from what you’re really paying to what happens after prom—that turns a familiar high school milestone into bite-size lessons on pricing, signaling, and the choices behind what we buy.

Jayse has been thinking like an economist since Juicy Limes, a fourth-grade sticker brand that never quite launched—and now follows fashion trends as they rise and fall on resale apps and social media. With plans to study business while exploring economics, finance, and entrepreneurship, Jayse sees hype as economics in fast-forward. The fellowship project, “The Resale Rundown,” is a short-form video series that connects everyday buying, selling, pricing, and trends in clothing resale to core economic ideas—supply and demand, opportunity cost, price discovery, and information asymmetry.

Naman builds economics interactives—including a Fed Chair simulator, a market-crash game, and a presidential fiscal simulator. A stint as a growth intern at a startup, where AI kept rewriting the playbook faster than the team could ship, sparked an obsession with what still holds value when technology changes. The fellowship project, “The Negotiation,” is an interactive about how AI will reshape the future of jobs: three modules teach the key economic concepts, then a simulation tests your understanding as an employee fighting to keep a job in an AI-transformed workplace. (Best on a laptop, in full screen.)

Andrew is one of our youngest fellows, bringing a passion for economics that included taking AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics as a hobby outside of school! His fellowship project changed dramatically after he read “Average is Over” by Tyler Cowen, when he decided to master his use of AI. Andrew’s project is called “Mapped News,” which is an online news platform for teachers that presents competing viewpoints on various topics of the day (e.g., rent control, tariffs, and UBI). He implemented three distinct components within his proprietary technology solution: lateral reading (to shift perspectives based on different sources), AI web scraping (to locate links based on custom prompts), and analytical philosophy (to generate visual argument maps). His two main goals for the website are to help teachers stay neutral and help students see both sides of an argument. Ultimately, “Mapped News” will give teachers the tools they need to help students refine their own beliefs.

Noah is a young entrepreneur who turned his passion for sneakers into a thriving resale business, generating over $10,000 in sales. Alongside his entrepreneurial work, he’s excelled academically as an AP Scholar with Honors and contributed as a mentor, coach, and student leader. This fall, he’ll study finance and data analytics at Southern Methodist University. For his fellowship project, Noah created Sneaker Econ—a series of short videos that use the sneaker resale market to make core economic concepts come alive. By breaking down ideas like supply and demand, input costs, opportunity cost, and resale profitability, he shows how economics plays out in a world teens already know. “Knowing economics helps you make smarter moves,” he points out, “even in hype culture.”