2001 Major: Economics; Master of Environmental Management (2003)
"I’m a civil-rights and public-interest lawyer. For six years, I worked for the US Justice Department, where I litigated controversial voting rights cases that challenged the implementation of voter ID programs, polling place closures in African-American neighborhoods, and race-based gerrymandering. Modern large-scale voting rights claims are data-driven, and econometric modeling has become an essential skill. In Court, Lawyers must prove correlations between, for example, census data and data from voter rolls and surveys. Knowing the language of regression analysis is critical."
"I know it’s crass, but take Money and banking. I wrote a popular novel that’s being turned into a movie. At a certain point, I had to get serious about understanding what to do with the surplus money. This understanding was particularly important to me, who came from a family that didn’t have much savings and definitely didn’t have advanced financial literacy skills."
