Awards


    Best Paper Award,New York University’s Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy       Graduate Student Conference,2008
    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Economics), 2007-2010
   Stanford University, Lockheed Fellowship, 2006-2010
   Fulbright Fellowship recipient, 2003 (declined)
   Outstanding undergraduate honors thesis award, 2003
   1999-2003 Toyota Community Scholar (one of twelve scholars in a pool of 13,000 selected      to receive a $20,000 college scholarship in recognition of my community service)

   Girl Scout Gold Award (highest award in girl scouting, equivalent to Boy Scout Eagle Award)