Precious Fasakin is a final year undergraduate student of Economics and Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Her recent research focuses on West Africa and the potential to utilize community-based media and radio programming for empowerment and socio-economic development. During her junior year, she was selected by the university as a Chancellor’s Research Fellow and pursued independent, funded research on the subject. Precious has worked as an NSF undergraduate research assistant, a board member of her university’s research journal, and most recently, was recognized as the American Economic Association Summer Program valedictorian at Michigan State University. Her university interests include her work as a journalist and host through her radio program, which highlights the cultures and communities of the African continent and its diaspora, connecting her research with this weekly broadcasting program. Her interests lie at the intersection of socio-economics, media and journalism studies, cooperative economics and Africana studies. Precious plans to pursue a doctoral degree and serve as an educator, researcher and journalist.