economic woman

About Me

I’m an undergraduate in economics and international relations at the University of Toronto in Canada, but I spend more time writing than studying. Over the past few years I’ve published well over fifty articles, primarily news and features, but also book and theatre reviews. I’m finishing up a term as associate news editor at U of T’s biggest student paper, The Varsity. I’ve also been published in Eye Weekly, Shameless Magazine, ThreeWeeks, The Student, Peace Magazine, and Youth Action Forum. I blog for Shameless Magazine. I write part of a column for the Tyee about Youtube and internet video.

I’m also a compliance analyst for the G8 Research Group, an amazing student-run research project that is the world’s top authority for information on the G8. You can find some of my research, writing and editing work in the latest interim compliance report.

About Economic Woman

This site is about what happens when my intellectual passion, economics, butts up against my political proclivities towards feminism, anti-oppression, and scepticism.

Over the past year, I’ve been thrilled to discover a vital community of blogging economists. Where my lectures are dry and out of date, the blogosphere is relevant, lively and teeming with questions and perspectives that I’ve never considered. In the wake of the death of the faculty lunch room, blogs have given the discipline space to throw around research as it happens, and given everyone a ring-side seat on the creation of modern economic theory.

Feminism’s third wave is also alive and kicking on the internet. I keep up with an international network of inspiring, ambitious women strategizing for change.

Sometimes the same topics pop up on both sides of my RSS reader. But as far as I can tell, there is nowhere on the internet that economic bloggers and feminist bloggers meet. I am trying to build a point of intersection because I think we have a few things to learn from each other.