Athena Small
Host at Refounding Democracy
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolAthena Small is an economist, decision scientist, and public-facing host who leads Refounding Democracy, a project reimagining democratic institutions for the 21st century. With nearly a decade of recent experience and a long career bridging academia, entrepreneurship, and applied research, she has led NSF-funded projects, cofounded a citizens’ initiative that influenced the Dodd-Frank creation of the Office of Financial Research, and earned recognition for research quality in agricultural economics. Her work spans environmental and climate economics, weather-risk management, and fraud analytics, supported by faculty roles at institutions including Kyiv School of Economics, Cornell, Columbia, Penn State, and the University of Virginia. Athena combines rigorous quantitative training (PhD Berkeley; MS/Cornell; BA Columbia) with product-minded leadership—founding a weather-risk firm that delivered machine-readable forecasts and decision tools—and communicates complex ideas to public audiences.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Agricultural & Resource Economics, Ph.D., Agricultural & Resource Economics at University of California, BerkeleyM.S., Mathematics, M.S., Mathematics at Cornell UniversityB.A., Mathematics, B.A., Mathematics at Columbia University
French, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, English
Github Skills (11)
development-environment5
ide5
rstudio4
editor3
machine-learning3
forecasting3
r2
time-series2
api2
economy1
dashboard1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uva-engineering-decision-analysis/course-materials
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:72 commits, 62 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
athena-small/a-small-repo
May 2019 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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