Kaythari Maw is a Ph.D. student in Economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is the first in her Burmese-diasporic community to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics. Kaythari holds a master’s degree in Regional Science at Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of labor economics, urban and regional economics, and Asian American studies. Kaythari plans to use her Ph.D. in economics to reduce the gap in research on the economic circumstances of the Burmese diaspora.