Five undergraduate economics students: Olivia Moerschel, Mackenzie Morris, Mia Sethi, Cara Sibert, and Willow Winslow, attended the Second Annual Women in Economics Symposium at the St. Louis Federal Reserve.
Sessions explored topics in Economics, such as “Can You Make a Difference in the World as an Economist?” and “Making Decisions about the Future: Grad School, Banking, Finance, Academia or Government?” with leading women in the fields of banking, academia and government.
The Symposium featured a panel discussion with Loretta Mester, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Amanda Bayer, Professor of Economics at Swarthmore College; and Kate Warne, Principal and Investment Strategist of Edward Jones.
This was the second year that Missouri State students attended the Women in Economics Symposium. The Symposium highlighted the economics profession’s unique problem with diversity, and the difficulties that women (who compose less than one-third of economics majors and less than 15 percent of full professors) face in the economics profession.