Zerah Aizle Lamorena is an undergraduate senior at Stony Brook University, pursuing a double major in Economics and Business Management with a specialization in Finance. She was born in the US but lived in the Philippines during my high school years which sparked my interest in economic development, specifically dealing with topics of labor markets, firms, finance, education, gender, and political economy. She is currently working as a Research Assistant both at UCLA, where she assists with projects based in the Philippines, and at her home institution where she researches unemployment insurance issues. She is also writing two theses about financial technology and reservation wages of unemployment insurance recipients. Last summer, Zerah was selected to participate in the inaugural class of PREDOC Summer Course in Social Science Analytics hosted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she researched and presented her own paper about the influence of race, employment status, and educational level on food choices. Additionally, Zerah mentors freshman scholars and was also a former teaching assistant for Macroeconomic Theory.