Nishan Jones was a student at Chabot College before transferring to UC Berkeley in 2018 and earning a B.A. in economics. While at UC Berkeley, Nishan co-founded the student organization Underrepresented Minorities in Economics with the goal of providing a safe space for Black and Brown students to thrive in economics at Berkeley. Her interest in economics began in a California Geography course where she studied the link between Proposition 13 and the proceeding lose in funding for specific school districts with a higher proportion of minorities. She went on to study abroad as a Gilman Scholar at the University of Edinburgh and participate in the American Economic Association Summer Program at Michigan State University where she wrote a paper analyzing the advantages of an Ivy League education across varying income distributions. Currently, Nishan is a Research Assistant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston where she is analyzing large panel and survey data to monitor generational employment probabilities, and the current/future implications of the covid19 pandemic on labor market outcomes. Nishan intends to earn a Ph.D. in economics and connect her research interests of education policy and labor economics to improve the socio-economic status of people of color.