Graduate Student Organizations

Economic Graduates AssembleD (EGAD)

EGAD is a student organization devoted to improving the educational experience of graduate students in the Economics Department at UT Austin.

1) Social: EGAD is committed to fostering social interactions and developing a sense of community among economics graduate students. Our social activities include various happy hours held throughout the semester, the annual Halloween Party, which is always a great success, and the Department Picnic in the Fall. We also promote student-faculty interaction by including faculty in all our social events.

2) Educational: EGAD organizes a number of seminars for our fellow students during the academic year in order to provide support and guidance with regard to important academic milestones. These include “Surviving the First Year Seminar,” “Surviving the Comps Seminar,” “The Second Year Paper Seminar,” and “The Job Market Seminar.” At these events, more advanced students share their experiences, give advice, and answer questions from their classmates. We also invite faculty members to provide feedback and share their points of view on specific related issues.

3) Political: EGAD acts as a sounding board for the graduate students' concerns and suggestions and strives to initiate and achieve effective communication with the economics department faculty and staff. To this end, a group of EGAD representatives meets with the department chair and the graduate program advisor and coordinator on a regular basis to address and discuss any new or outstanding issues.

EGAD holds monthly meetings, and all current grad students are welcome to attend. Each entering class has a representative, who, in addition to EGAD’s officers, attends these meetings.

Below is a roster of the officers and class reps for the 2021-22 academic year:

Faculty Liaison- Eric Schulman | ericschulman@utexas.edu
Social Chair-Joseph Stemmler | joseph.stemmler@utexas.edu
Social Chair-Sahil Khatkar | sahil.khatkar@utexas.edu
Sports Director- Samuel Arenberg | samuel.arenberg@gmail.com
Master's Co-Chair- Gaetano Dona-Jehan|gaetanodonajehan@utexas.edu
Master's Co-Chair- George “Austin” Longoria|george.longoria@utexas.edu
3rd Year Representative- Chris Curfman|chris.curfman@utexas.edu
2nd Year Representative- Francisco Pardo Pajuelo | fpardo@utexas.edu
1st Year Representative- Aishwarya Agarwal | aishwarya.agarwal@utexas.edu

Economic Graduates AssembleD (EGAD)

EGAD is a student organization devoted to improving the educational experience of graduate students in the Economics Department at UT Austin.

EGAD is committed to fostering social interactions and developing a sense of community among economics graduate students. Our social activities include happy hours, the annual Halloween Party (which is always a great success), a department picnic, and more. We also promote student-faculty interaction by including faculty in our social events.

In addition, EGAD facilitates several seminars to provide support and guidance for important academic milestones. These include “Surviving the Comps Seminar,” “The Second Year Paper Seminar,” and “The Job Market Seminar.” At these events, more advanced students share their experiences, give advice, and answer questions from their classmates.

Furthermore, EGAD acts as a sounding board for graduate students' concerns and suggestions and strives to initiate and achieve effective communication with the department's faculty and staff.

We encourage students to reach out to their cohort’s representative(s) with any questions, suggestions, or concerns.

EGAD is committed to fostering social interactions and developing a sense of community among economics graduate students. Our social activities include various happy hours held throughout the semester, the annual Halloween Party, which is always a great success, and the Department Picnic in the Fall. We also promote student-faculty interaction by including faculty in all our social events.

EGAD organizes a number of seminars for our fellow students during the academic year in order to provide support and guidance with regard to important academic milestones. These include “Surviving the First Year Seminar,” “Surviving the Comps Seminar,” “The Second Year Paper Seminar,” and “The Job Market Seminar.” At these events, more advanced students share their experiences, give advice, and answer questions from their classmates. We also invite faculty members to provide feedback and share their points of view on specific related issues.

EGAD acts as a sounding board for the graduate students' concerns and suggestions and strives to initiate and achieve effective communication with the economics department faculty and staff. To this end, a group of EGAD representatives meets with the department chair and the graduate program advisor and coordinator on a regular basis to address and discuss any new or outstanding issues.

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2021-22 Officers

2025-26 Committee Members

Outreach & Events Coordinator: Lindsey Clark
Graduate Community Coordinator:  Nathan Franz
5th Year Representatives: Nathan Franz & Faheem Gilani
4th Year Representatives:  Adry Gracio & Ryuya Ko
3rd Year Representatives:  Sowmya Gayat Ganesh & Tanisha Agrawal
2nd Year Representatives:  Hyungjin Kim & Minjeong Son
1st Year Representative:  Chris Acker
Master’s Co-Chairs:  Blayne Burke & Emily Choi-Slattery

Other Graduate Student Organizations

The Economics Department is happy to support the events of registered student organizations (RSOs) when those events engage economics graduate students and/or support the educational mission of the Economics Department. Click here for details.