Research for Financial Literacy by Esha

When I had written a blog last in August I was in my internship period with Teens Who Invest. My role was to research different topics that are pertinent to financial literacy and assist Ria in creating the slides and content for presentation to others.

The definition of Research in dictionaries is “​​Research is the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions”. 

I love digging for information, looking up resources, gathering data on what is important and identifying new topics that support all the work we do. We are not professional advisors and we have a disclaimer that clarifies that for our session attendees. But, the  information we present is still thorough and corroborated with our parent advisor. Since these topics are not taught in school, a lot of the investigation and study of materials has to be done by us. The challenging parts of course are two-fold - one is to research topics that are relevant to people young like us or even younger than us, and then to distill the information in a way that it is easy to deliver and is easily understood. 

I helped Ria, who owns creating all our content, create 6 sets of elaborate slides that

Ria and the team decided to offer me the option of staying on full time. I am now their Director of Research. I like the title, it does justice to my passion.

I am a natural researcher. My parents say it is in my DNA. I agree. I am a scientist by preference, a mathematician too. But now that I have been with Teens Who Invest for months as an attendee, then as an intern, and now as the Research Director, I love the area of Financial studies now and am excited to know what else is in store for me.  Perhaps in the future I might do a dual degree in STEM and Finance. The possibilities are limitless.