Saied Beckford is a junior at Rutgers University – Newark, where he is pursuing a double major in Economics and Computer Science, and a double minor in Mathematics and Social Justice. During his formative years, Saied took a keen interest in accounting and finance, however, during a high school trip to the Federal Reserve for the Fed Challenge (a macroeconomic case study competition at the FRBNY), he began to love the economics profession. Throughout his years studying economics at the collegiate level, Saied has found that his passion extends to the intersectional study of financial economics, economics and law, and machine learning/ AI.