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|name=Meghana Pannala,

|degree=BA,

|major=CAAM, MTEC,

|email=mrp10@rice.edu

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==Biography==

Meghana is a 21 year old student at Rice University currently working as a Research Assistant for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy's McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Meghana was born in Hyderabad, India and immigrated, with her family, to the United States when she was three years old. Since then, she has lived in six different states, and now considers the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. her home, where she lives with her parents and one younger sister. She attended the Loudoun County Academy of Science, a magnet STEM high school, where she gained a passion for mathematics, and now studies both economics and applied mathematics as a third-year undergraduate at Rice University. In the past, Meghana has interned with Capital One and Thomson Reuters where she was able to apply her studies to explore the financial services industry.

At Rice, Meghana spends her free time mentoring refugee youth, getting involved at her residential college, Lovett, and planning Rice's annual TEDx conference.