My work sits at the intersection of finance, data, institutions, and real-world decision-making. I am interested in collaborations that connect academic research, classroom learning, and the practical problems facing firms, communities, financial institutions, workforce organizations, and public agencies. 

Hays-Caldwell Economic Development Partnership: Workforce recovery after the July 2025 Central Texas floods, using job-postings data to give local partners timely evidence on which industries and occupations are recovering.

Women in Neuroscience: Financial Foundations, a monthly financial education series for first-year college students. Financial Literacy Workshops

Translational Health Research Center, Texas State University: 2026–2027 Faculty Fellow, working on labor-market recovery and community economic resilience.

Disasters, Labor Markets, and Economic Resilience: Practitioner feedback, advisory conversations, community-facing dissemination, and applied discussion of workforce recovery, emergency preparedness, and financial access after shocks.

Applied Finance and Student Learning: Guest discussions, student project prompts, case materials, practitioner feedback, and poster-session judging.  Teaching

Data, Dashboards, and Research Infrastructure: Building datasets and public-facing tools from public, administrative, and regulatory sources, including dashboards that communities and employers can use. Data & Projects

Financial Education: Workshops for community organizations, employers, and student groups. Financial Literacy Workshops

I welcome conversations with organizations that may be interested in:

• sharing real-world examples for student learning;

• serving as guest speakers or project judges;

• helping students understand applied financial and economic problems;

• providing practitioner feedback on research ideas;

• collaborating on community-facing financial education;

• identifying data, policy, or implementation questions that would benefit from academic analysis.

These collaborations do not need to fit into a single box. I am especially interested in partnerships that help connect finance, data, students, and community impact.

Email: ishitha@txstate.edu