Anaya Truss-Williams is a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Maryland, College Park where she is pursuing a dual degree in Economics and Economic Geography with a minor in Global Poverty. On campus, she serves as the vice president of operations of the Women in Economics club, a tutor for introductory economics courses for the office of academic achievement programs and a student in the Promoting Achievement and Diversity in Economics program. Anaya is also the diversity, equity and inclusion coordinator and assistant special projects editor at the independent student newspaper The Diamondback. She has reported on technology and urban development, contributes to Spanish-language coverage and helped start the “Priced Out of Town” series investigating housing unaffordability in their college town. She has previously interned at the San Francisco Fed’s Cash Product Office and has experience assisting with randomized controlled trials. This summer, she will work as a regional and community analysis intern at the Richmond Fed. She intends to pursue a Ph.D. in economics and hopes to specialize in spatial econometrics and other topics at the intersection of economics and geography.