Eagles Economics Society

2/4 Dr. Greg Brock, Professor of Economics, Georgia Southern University

2/11 Benjamin Thompson, CEO, Development Authority of Bulloch County

2/18 Professional Skills Workshop

3/4 Jessica Hood, Vice President, Effingham County Industrial Development Authority

3/24 Percent Night at Surcheros

4/8 Melissa Whitener, Managing Consultant, Thought Logic Consulting 

4/15 End-of-Semester Gathering and Elections

9/10 Interest Meeting

9/24 Career Discussion

10/8 Networking Night with Women in Business

10/15 Resume and Cover-Letter Workshop with Rachel Barrett, Career and Internship Adviser, Georgia Southern University

10/22 Cameron Speakes, Senior Research Analyst, Georgia Department of Economic Development

11/5 Election Day Discussion

11/12 Charles Kroncke, Acting Dean of Business and Professor of Economics, Mount St. Joseph University

11/19 End-of-Semester Gathering

1/23 Welcome Back Gathering

1/30 Rusty Williams, Senior Director @ Vaco (BBA Economics '05)

2/6 Brian Goggin, Consultant @ Goggin and Associates (BS Economics '79) 

2/13 Resume Workshop

2/27 Michelle Hetager, Senior Wealth Advisor & VP @ Truist Bank Savannah 

3/5 Econ Club Leaders Speak

4/2 Analucia Yanar, Performance Auditor @ Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts (BBA Economics '22)

4/9 End of Semester Gathering

9/5 Welcome Back Gathering

9/12 Graduate School Information Session w/ Prof. Jeff Schiman, Associate Professor of Economics @ Georgia Southern University

9/19 Building a Resume w/ Amy Rowell, Career & Internship Advisor @ Office of Career and Professional Development, Georgia Southern University 

10/3 Waiting for Superman (film) 

10/10 Tom Jackson, Finance Associate @ Tenet Advisors (BBA Economics ’23)

10/17 Prof. Chris Brunt, Shirley & Philip Solomons Endowed Chair, Professor of Economics @ Georgia Southern University

10/24 Game Night

10/31 Profs. Gregory Brock and Constantin Ogloblin, Professors of Economics @ Georgia Southern University

11/7 Rand Ressler, Associate Dean and Professor of Economics @ Georgia Southern University

11/14 Steve Shepherd, Financial Institution Specialist @ Steve H. Powell & Company

11/28 End of Semester Gathering

9/14 Megan Houck, Senior REIN Analyst @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (GS MS in Econ, class of 2021)

9/28 Cameron Randall, Senior Data Scientist @ Mercury (GS Econ, class of 2012)

10/26 Danielle Smith, Director, Experiential Learning & Corporate Relations, Parker College of Business “A Discussion on the Parker Scholars Program”

11/2 Andrew Simpson, Lead Business & Technology Strategist @ Mitre Corporation (GS Econ graduate)

11/9 William Khairi, MS in Applied Economics student @ Johns Hopkins University (GS Econ, class of 2021)

11/30 End of Semester Gathering

2/2 Welcome Back Meeting

2/9 Jeff Schiman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Georgia Southern University

2/16 Blythe Adamson, Ph.D., MPH, Director of Quantitative Sciences, Flatiron Health

2/23 Alex Conarton, Existing Industry Coordinator, Effingham County Industrial Development Authority (GS Econ Major, Class of 2021)

3/2 AnnMarie Grason Hasty, Associate, Ernst and Young (GS Econ Major, Class of 2019)

3/9 Caroline Sipe, M.A., Director, World 50, Inc. (GS International/Global Studies Major, Class of 2015)

3/23 Nicholas Parker, Survey Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

3/30 Resume Workshop

4/6 Turner Binkley, J.D., Assistant General Counsel, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

4/13 Mock Interviews

4/27 End of Semester Gathering

8/18 Introductory Meeting

8/25 Networking Workshop

9/1 Elizabeth Smith, MPP Student @ Georgetown University (GS Econ Major, Class of 2020)

9/8 Caitlin Tongo, Senior Manager of Consulting Services @ Collaborative Solutions, LLC (GS Finance Major, Class of 2015) 

9/15 Yucong Jiao, Senior Economist @ Amazon 

9/29 Brent Meyer, Assistant Vice President and Economist @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 

10/6 Nicholas Parker, Survey Director @ Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

10/13 Jordan Totten, Machine Learning Specialist @ Google (GS Econ Major, Class of 2014)

10/20 Kenny Ciarletta, Senior Operations Analyst @ PwC (GS Econ Major, Class of 2019) 

10/27 Resume Workshop w/ Bill Florin, Resu-mazing Services Company 

11/3 John Luidens, Strategy and Analytics Manager @ Farmers Insurance 

11/10 Nathan Barker, Legislative Assistant @ US House of Representatives (GS Econ Major, Class of 2016) 

11/17 End of Semester Gathering 

1/27 Brian Bialek, MBA, Executive Director, JPMorgan Private Bank; GS college of business graduate class of 2005

2/3 Resume Workshop

2/10 Jonathan Chiza, Senior Associate, PwC; GS information systems major class of 2018

2/17 Janet Moss, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Enterprise Systems and Analytics, Georgia Southern University

2/24 John Hatem, PhD, Professor of Finance, Georgia Southern University

3/3 Dylan Binkley, MBA, Senior Manager Corporate Strategy and Business Development, Whirlpool Corporation

3/10 Cameron Speakes, Economics PhD student at Florida State University; GS economics major class of 2020 

3/24 Samuel Russell, Associate Analyst, Voya Investment Management; GS finance major class of 2018 

3/31 Joanna Pangburn, Master of Public Health student at Tulane University; GS economics major class of 2019 

4/7 Thomas Walstrum, PhD, Senior Business Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

4/14 Networking Workshop

4/21 Rand Ressler, PhD, Associate Dean, Parker College of Business, Georgia Southern 

4/28 Meeting of Former and New Society Officers 

9/16 Welcome Back Meeting

9/30 Brad Thomas, Operations Manager, AutoZone

10/7 Rachel Barrett, Career Services, Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University

10/21 Jeff Schiman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern

10/28 Marcus Casey, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics at UIC and Nonresident Fellow at Brookings Institution

11/11 Alexa Morales, Risk Assurance Specialist, PwC (GS economics grad 2019)

1/15 Meeting of the economics society officers

1/22 Welcome back meeting

1/29 Personal Finance with John Hatem (PhD, Professor of Finance at Georgia Southern) and Jeff Schiman (PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern)

2/5 Conversations with Finance PhD Students with Diego Guerrero (PhD student in economics at University of Tennessee) and Connor Kasten (former finance major at GS, current PhD student in finance at University of Tennessee)

2/12 Using data to answer big questions with Neil Carlson (PhD, Director, Center for Social Research)

2/19 Economics of Public Health with Kevin Callison (PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Health at Tulane University)

2/26 Heterodox Economics with Mary Orisich (MA, Professor of Economics, Holyoke Community College)

3/4 Conversations with an Amazon economist with Irina Horoi (PhD, Senior Economist at Amazon)

3/11 Building a Resume

Remainder of semester meetings cancelled due to Covid-19

9/18 Economics research at the World Trade Center – Savannah with Cameron Speakes (Economics major at Georgia Southern)

9/25 Eagles on Wall Street informational session with Allissa Lee (PhD, Associate Professor of Finance at Georgia Southern)

10/2 Graduate school informational session with Jeff Schiman (PhD, Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgia Southern)

10/16 GS Investment club with Michael Williams (Mechanical engineering major at Georgia Southern

10/30 Perspectives on a career in an economics research think tank with Jason Ward (PhD, Economist, RAND Corporation) and Anuj Gangopadhyaya (PhD, Research Associate, Urban Institute)

11/6 Perspectives on a career in law with Turner Binkley (JD, Associate, Schiff Hardin)

11/13 Perspectives on a career in financial services with Max Manack (Senior Vice President and Associate Resident Director, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management), Jim Campbell (Vice President and Senior Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management), and Ansley Thompson (Registered Client Associate, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management)

12/4 End of semester gathering at Three Tree Coffee Roasters