Learning Macroeconomics in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, I learned in real time how economic fluctuations inherently impact social mobility in all communities. In class, I utilized Raj Chetty’s Opportunity Insights program to visualize just how detrimental the pandemic was to lower-income, BIPOC communities in NYC as compared to their wealthier and white counterparts.

Combining maps and graphs as well as real-time experience as I quarantined at home, I created the infographic New York City: The Intersections between Wealth and Race–– and its Impacts on Consumership, illustrating the cause-and-effect relationship between the departure of upper-class white Manhattan residents fleeing the city due to COVID-19, the subsequent slow of high-class and luxury-related spending in the city, the rise in lower-class majority BIPOC spending.