People Type: WEYAC Board

Brandsma (WEYAC Chair), Ericka

Ericka Brandsma is currently a Project Manager at Column, a civic tech startup building technology to improve the utility of public interest information. As a Project Manager, Ericka works closely with Engineering, Product and Sales teams to onboard public notice business from top publishing groups. Prior to Column, Ericka cut her teeth at larger organizations …

El Ghaoui, Alexandre

Alexandre El Ghaoui is an Associate at ASG, an international strategic advisory and geopolitical consultancy in Washington D.C. At ASG, Alexandre supports clients across the Middle East & North Africa region through market research and geopolitical analysis. Before joining ASG, Mr. El Ghaoui was an Account Manager at Diplomatic Solutions, a strategy and communications firm, …

Hazen, Will

Will was born and raised in Aspen, CO and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2021 with a degree in Economics. Will grew up immersed in a lucrative real estate market with his dad being a real estate broker of over 40 years in Aspen and an Econ Grad from UW–Madison as well. Since …

Lai, Emma

Emma is a Senior Data Visualization and Analytics Consultant at Cleartelligence, a boutique analytics consulting firm based in Boston. She fell in love with data visualization during her internship at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Since then, she has been painting pictures and telling stories with data across a variety of industries, including supply …

Olson, Kaitryn

Kaitryn Olson holds a BS in Economics with a math emphasis and Environmental studies as well as a MS in Agricultural and Applied Economics both from UW–Madison. During her bachelors, Kaitryn was active in the service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, Club Hockey, and received a Leadership Certificate. Kaitryn graduated in 2021 from her bachelor’s and …

Rosado, Dominic

Dominic Rosado graduated in 2020 with a BS in Economics. He worked for three years in Charlotte, NC before moving to Chicago to work as an Analyst with BMO Capital Markets in Leveraged Lending. While at UW–Madison, Dominic was involved as a peer mentor for the LEAD@econ program and served as finance director for Slow …

Zhang, Hao

Originally from Northern China, Hao came to the States in 2014 to finish high school and became a badger in the fall of 2016 with double majors in Economics and Mathematics. After graduating from Madison in 2020, he continued his education at the Georgia Institute of Technology and earned a Master’s in Quantitative Finance during …