Admittedly, I indulge in the gloriously foolish: from hilarious low-budget films like Monty Python and the Holy Grail to the fantastical Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I have a fondness for Groucho Marx and definitely plan on living forever. Or die trying. I hope to write my biography someday, titled “There and Never Back Again: the Girl who Could, Thought She Couldn’t, but Did Anyway.” I always take the bigger half of the cookie. Still, everyone tells me...

As often as we moralists would like to deny it, economics is the catalyst for change. A bulk of foreign efforts are humanitarian but the slow progress of these efforts proves that the international agenda needs to prioritize policies that will accomplish more with less. What if we could attack injustices from their source? Money. An issue at the forefront of such injustice are illicit financial flows (IFF’s), which need to be the focus for the coming decade in...

The supplemental topic was on an international problem we identified and a solution we created.

I would've started the summer going into my senior year! I would also have gotten in contact with alumni from...