Aahana Baral

I work with different journals and have a team in my initiative that focuses on economics for students who don't have the opportunity to do research or find opportunities to present their work. We focus on emerging pathways and emerging industries, which is my theme and brand. We try to report on these emerging industries and spread awareness among youth. I work as a project development intern at FrazIQ, an AI-agented company based in San Francisco, where I help the team stay organized and work through situations where they're facing issues or need organizing within their department to finalize projects or execute them with vendors and stakeholders. I wanted to get into operations and economics because when I was younger, I was really into understanding how the world systems work and how it affected people around me. I'm a strategic and systematic thinker, so this area made my personality and potential click out. It made me actually have my potential in this area because I thought like that, and I could contribute more and understand and help out in the space more with this kind of thinking in economics management. I also founded Emerging Pathfinders, my own initiative where we focus on emerging industries and give a social platform to students who are interested in economics. I believe many students who are into econ, finance, or business have places where they can learn, but they don't have a place where they can actually learn technical skills from professors or university students. I believe students should not just learn economics, but also learn the technical knowledge associated with it, especially as AI is a big factor in this era.