Zina Shimov is a rising junior at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is studying economics and plans on continuing to graduate school. Zina currently serves on the leadership board of the Chabad at Georgia Tech and is an alumna of the Nick Mamalakis Emerging Leaders Program. She loves traveling and hopes to visit every continent. Growing up in a mix of cultures has shaped her perspective on global financial inequality and fueled her interest in information about why some countries prosper at the same time as others war. Her passion is to understand how to achieve economic equality and what makes a country wealthy or poor. She looks forward to EDE to gain the skills to learn more about her interests.

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Zina Shimov
Georgia Institute of Technology, Class of 2026