About Us

Meet the amazing women who lead our organization

 

Faculty advisor Meta Brown

Meta Brown is an associate professor of Economics at the Ohio State University and serves as the faculty advisor to Graduate Women in Economics. Her work focuses primarily on education, student debt, demographics, and labor. She is also a faculty affiliate for the Institution for Population Research, and an affiliate of the Institute for Economic Equity at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

 

President Sooa Ahn

Sooa Ahn is a PhD student in the Economics Department, specializing in health and labor economics. Her research focuses on the labor supply of healthcare professionals, health outcomes of underserved populations, and public policy implications in these areas.

 

Vice president Jing Feng

Jing Feng is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics at The Ohio State University. Her primary fields are labor and education economics. Her secondary field is political economy. Her current work examines the impact of political connections on the allocation of public amenities.

 

Treasurer Young In Lee

Young In Lee is a macroeconomist focusing on the role of production/capital input-output network structures in the mechanism of how the sectoral financial frictions contribute to the aggregate economy. Her study began with a simple two-sector economy under a complete market setting and is being extended to an N-sector economy with sectoral financial frictions and substitutabilities among sectors.

 

 

 

 

Success Stories

See what our founding members are up to now

Katerine Ramirez-Nieto, Ph.D. Co-founder

Sydney Schreiner, Ph.D. Co-founder

Christina Gore Co-founder

Guangyi (Nancy) Wang, Ph.D. Co-founder

Xianhua (Emma) Zai, Ph.D. Co-founder