Tara W. Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

Antitrust/Competition Policy

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

- Help inform monetary policy decisions by integrating internal forecasts with public time series data to construct 500+ Board briefing charts detailing recent domestic economic developments.- Support forecast of unemployment and other labor market indicators by generating ad-hoc figures of incoming data and projections, maintaining charting codebase, and fact-checking policy memos.- Co-authoring a FEDS Note on the structural and cyclical impediments to job-seeking, through data refining and empirical analysis of 14 million Current Population Survey microdata observations.- Evaluated immigration’s labor market impacts by automating extraction and cleaning of visa issuance information from State Department PDFs to create a core immigration dataset and visualizations.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Contributed timely insights for Harvard Square: A Love Story by examining Harvard Square marketplace as a microcosm of larger "Main Street USA" economic and social patterns of property ownership, commercial turnover, market attachment, and urban change.- Synthesized news articles, academic, and archival works, tracked community discourse, and briefed Professor Turco at weekly 1:1s.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Migrated tables of daily financial market prices to R, increasing the reliability of a key tool that Federal Reserve staff use to track financial market developments. - Leveraged data cleaning and Natural Language Processing techniques in Python using pandas, matplotlib, and sci-kit learn packages on a database of Federal Reserve Officials speeches dating back to 1917.

Wellesley, Ma

- Facilitated weekly "laboratory" session and office hours for 20+ ECON 103 (Introduction to Probability & Statistical Methods) students in order to reinforce lecture material, help students with assignment problems, and guide them through Excel applications of lecture concepts.

New York, New York

- Aided a large cruise line in becoming General Data Protection Regulation compliant through Excel data consolidation, client organizational/work stream chart production, and privacy software research.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, Durant Scholar- Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Economic Student Association, Ministrare Council, Wellesley Association for South Asian Culture, WeStart!, WZLY.

Visiting Student, Economics

Behavioral & Experimental Economics Public Economics

High School

Activities and Societies: Thirst Project, UNICEF, Varsity Field Hockey, Varsity Track & Field, National Honors Society, German Honors.