Shreya Joshi was an undergraduate at Duke University, majoring in history. As a member of the oral history policy sub-team, she focused on interview prep and transcripts. Shreya was interested in how the global financial crisis shaped future civil rights policy, and how it shed light on disparate impacts in such times. In her free Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Braelyn Parkman majored in public policy studies and history. She contributed to the oral history and policy teams. She worked on oral histories with advocates and policy makers, and a memo on mortgage enforcement actions in Massachusetts.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Sana Pashankar studied computer science and public policy. She contributed to the data analysis and policy analysis teams. She created word clouds that depict the relative ways stakeholders described the financial crisis and executive summaries that depict state legislation/action on the financial crisis.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Raghav Rasal studied economics with minors in Chinese and statistics. He contributed to the business analysis and policy analysis teams. He worked on an executive summary highlighting North Carolina’s mortgage legislations prior to and post the subprime crisis. Raghav grew up in 4 countries and speaks 5 languages.
As a graduate student at Duke University, Sebastián Soriano Pérez completed a Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science. He was the project manager and contributed to the data analysis team. He worked on a project to quantify the impact of North Carolina’s 1999 predatory lending law on the subprime mortgage market.
Esther Hong studied towards a J.D. degree at Duke University. She contributed to the policy analysis team. She worked on a project to analyze preemption issues of “predatory lending” across the state and federal regulatory landscape.
Carolyn Chen was an undergraduate student at Duke University. She studied computer science, concentrating in data science. She contributed to the oral history and business analysis teams. She conducted interviews for the team’s oral history archive and worked on the team’s case studies of various financial institutions in the run-up to the crisis.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Charlie Zong studied philosophy with a certificate in policy, journalism, and media studies. For 2019-2020, he contributed to the legislative analysis and oral history teams. For 2020-2021, he contributed to the business analysis and technology teams. He worked on a project to analyze differing definitions of “predatory lending” Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Maria Paz Rios studied mathematics, history, and music. She worked on oral histories. Maria was interested in the intersection between law and finance, especially within the context of the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis.
As a graduate student at Duke University, Patrick Rochelle earned a Master of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy. He contributed to and co-led the oral history team. Patrick was particularly interested in how the work of local advocacy organizations, non-profits, and community leaders influenced the state and federal government’s response to Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate at Duke University, Jessie Xu studied public policy and economics. She worked on data analysis of the business perspective toward the crisis, and a legislative analysis focused on the 1999 Anti-Predatory Lending Law. As a result of joining the team, Jessie was interested in pursuing a career in banking regulation and consumer Continue Reading »
Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy was a J.D. candidate at the Duke University School of Law. He conducted legal research and interviewed legal professionals for the oral history project. O’Shaughnessy was interested in the popular credibility of U.S. institutions and their ability to adapt to novel shocks.
Cassidy Bolt was a JD/LLM candidate at Duke University School of Law. She worked on the oral history project. After an internship at the Federal Trade Commission, Bolt developed an interest in studying how consumer protection law and competition law interact.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Arjun Bakshi studied economics and psychology with a minor in computer science. He contributed to the data analysis and policy analysis teams. He worked on creating executive summaries that combine both the data visualizations and housing legislative timelines for states.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Collins Abanda studied computer science with a minor in cultural anthropology. Within the APL team, Collins worked on data analysis and web development. Specifically, his work focused on drilling down to individual county and census tract-level data to assess trends in lending across regions given certain characteristics of Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Darielle Engilman studied public policy and religious studies with a minor in economics. She contributed to the oral history and business analysis teams. She worked on a case study of Long Beach Mortgage Corporation.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, William Zhao studied economics with a concentration in financial economics and mathematics. He contributed to the data analysis and business analysis teams, and he studied the evolution of mortgage underwriting and the state-level mortgage markets.
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Sarah Zhao pursued a double major in mathematics and economics with a finance concentration. She contributed to the business analysis team and led the marketing sub-team. She worked on a subset of evolution of mortgage lending examining the progression of lending rates through time and their role in Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate student at Duke University, Olivia studied public policy with minors in economics and art history. She contributed to the oral history, policy analysis, and marketing teams. She worked on a memo regarding mortgage enforcement actions in Florida.
Neha Vangipurapu was an undergraduate student at Duke University who majored in public policy and minored in psychology and French. She contributed to the oral history policy sub-team for the past two years, conducting oral history interviews with individuals who worked in government and nonprofits during the leadup and aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
