Careers

In opting to become an ACE teacher right after graduation, my critical thinking and creativity were put to the test every single day. My international economics major prepared me not only to teach high school Spanish, but to address my Master's coursework with deeper insight into the quantitative side of education. The questions raised from this time teaching and learning led me to move to Santiago, Chile, to dive into the reality of education from an international perspective - a reality that I know will inform my career moving forward.

“Since graduation, I have worked in two economics research labs specializing in impact evaluations of social service programs. The international lens, in particular, allows me to collaborate in Spanish with our regional office in Latin America and to consider a broad perspective while assessing study implications. International economics taught me to think critically, to extract lessons from data, and to communicate results with those directly impacted.”

“For my senior research project, I studied the economic cost of pollution in Santiago, Chile. I utilized both the quantitative tools when working with my datasets and also the qualitative, human-centered perspective Spanish gives me to understand the communities I was observing. I am participating in an accelerated development program at Roche Diagnostics, a full-time job that I was placed in through the Orr Fellowship. Not everyone can wrestle economic journals in Spanish or can engage in conversations about Latin America, so having these analytical tools under my belt will be awesome for working at Roche, a multinational medical diagnostic company."

"When I enrolled at Notre Dame, I declared an economics major on a hunch that I would enjoy the subject. After four great years in the program, I found myself armed with a robust set of quantitative skills and, thanks to the college of arts and letters, the wherewithal to apply what I learned to real-world problems. As a consultant, I’ve been able to bring these abilities to a diverse spread of subjects, supporting clients ranging from a confectionary redesigning their network of factories to a state government increasing their COVID-19 testing capacity. My degree in economics has given me credibility with my clients and coworkers as someone who can tackle an analytical task and translate the results into business or policy action."