Biography
Unaiza Khakoo is a junior majoring in finance and economics at The University of Texas at Dallas. On campus, she wrote for the student newspaper, The Mercury, and participated in Model United Nations. Off campus, she volunteered as an ESL and citizenship class teacher for Richardson Adult Literacy Center and worked at Take MAR, an environmental nonprofit, as a grant writing intern. As a Benjamin A. Gilman scholar, she studied abroad in Vienna, Austria, which inspired her passion for ecological economics in a country focused on sustainability. After graduation, she aspires to work in economic research and international development.