Meet Our Students
Data Journalists
These Lowe Institute research assistants (RAs) serve as our data journalists for the Lowe Down blog, producing original research on timely economic and public policy issues and publishing in-depth articles about their findings on our blog. Meet our 2024-2025 data journalism team!
Armine Kardashyan '26
Junior Student Manager
Anson Bouchard '26
David Lyu '27
Caleb Rasor '28
Arnav Swamy '27
Ochiro Tugsbilguun '26 POM
Sol Kim '27
Natalia Mathias '27
Ryan Shakiba '26
Forecast Team
The Lowe Institute’s forecast team creates ongoing economic reports and an annual State of the Region forecast focused on the Inland Empire in Southern California. On the team, Lowe Institute student research assistants get to work under the guidance and supervision of Manfred Keil, Lowe Institute Associate Director and the chief economist for the Inland Empire Economic Partnership (IEEP), to produce this important regional economic research and analysis. Meet the RAs on our forecast team!
Michael Ma '25
Claire Meier-Scherling '25
Arlo Jay '26
Junior Student Manager
Ivan Kolesnikov '25
Senior Student Manager
Matthew Aved '25
Sun Young Byun '26
Yu-Chi (Yunnie) Cheng '27
Elia Ching '27
Langcheng (Laura) Zhou POM '26
Violet Henderson '25
Suchen Hou '27
Nancy Li '27
Ethan Sattley '26
Ishaan Singru '27
Luke Young '27
Faculty RAs
Yishu (Shirley) Fang '26
RA - Rosett
Grego Garavaglio
RA - Shelton
Natalie Holert '27
RA - Shelton
Samuel Johnson-Saeger
RA - Lincoln
Jian (Athena) Ke '26
RA - Cardova
Zehao Li '27
RA - Pears
Chengqi Ma '28
RA - Cardova
Lucy Meza '26
RA - Shelton
Ragini Mohan '27
RA - Uamanath
Andrew Rizko '26
RA - Garin
Annika Johnson '26
RA - Lincoln
Claire Meier-Scherling
RA - Kelly
Jasper Datta '26
RA - Pears
Social Media Coordinators
Deborah Aguirre '28
Natalia Mathias '27
Learn About Our Student Opportunities
Learn more about the research opportunities we have available for students at the five Claremont Colleges.