I’m Victoria, a writer and researcher finishing up my statistics MS and economics BA at Stanford University.

I worked on economics research at: Brookings Institution, Innovations for Poverty Action, Stanford Medical School, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Favorite creative non-fiction essays: Notes of a Native Son, How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart, Letter from a Region in My Mind, Goodbye to All That

Writing

Assessing the state of household finances in nine charts (with Wendy Edelberg and Jimmy Zheng), Brookings Institution, September 2024.

The Hidden Costs of Digital Finance: What Mobile Money Providers Aren’t Telling You (with Ria Zapanta and Julia Chen Heigel), Innovations for Poverty Action, May 2025.