All views and opinions shared here are my own and do not represent those of the KC Fed or Federal Reserve System.I am a research associate at the Kansas City Fed. I recently graduated with a BS in economics and mathematics, and a BA in public policy from the University of Iowa. At Iowa, I worked as a research assistant in Dr. David Cooper's behavioral economics research lab studying how firms make and break contracts. In the summer of 2022, I worked for Captive Resource's business intelligence team conducting data analyses with Excel and SQL and developing data visualizations in Qlik. In the summer of 2021, I wrote and edited policy briefs about US international trade and fiscal policy and managed intern brief writers with Alliance for Citizen Engagement.