Courses at Brown University
The Economics of Education and Innovation
Undergraduate | Fall 2025
This course examines the dynamic relationship between education, innovation, and economic opportunity. We explore how education builds the human capital that drives economic growth, how this human capital generates transformative innovations, and how these innovations create demands for new educational approaches—forming a continuous "race" between education and technology. We also examine how recent advances in AI are reshaping this race. Students develop an original educational innovation proposal by applying course concepts through an entrepreneurial process focused on identifying problems, creating solutions, and scaling considerations.
Economic Analysis and Urban Education Policy
Master's | Spring 2026
This course introduces the toolkit of applied microeconomics for thinking about, developing, and analyzing education policy. Rather than focusing on abstract theory, the course introduces economic concepts via their application to current education policy debates. Topics include school funding, teacher labor markets, school choice, curricular reforms, standardized testing, and tracking. Students develop policy analysis skills through research presentations and policy memos.
Education for the Future: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Scale
Undergraduate | Spring 2026
We study recent innovations in three key areas of education: EdTech, AI, and Higher-Order Skills. This is a hands-on seminar where students not only analyze evidence-backed innovations but also iterate on them through six tinkering labs to propose new adaptations that can inform ongoing programs and policies at scale. Teams follow an entrepreneurial process—discover, validate, design, build, and scale—culminating in a capstone project addressing an education problem they care about.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Teachers College, Columbia University
Education and Economic Development (Spring 2021)
Microeconomic Theory with Applications to Education (Fall 2020)
Barnard College, Columbia University
Intermediate Econometrics (Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (Fall 2020, Spring 2021)
Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory (Fall 2021)
Health Economics (Spring 2022)
Teach For India Fellow (2011–2013)
Taught Grades 6 and 9 to at-risk youth rescued from the streets of New Delhi, and Grade 2 to 40 students in a low-cost private school in a densely populated slum area.