Princeton University, 2023
Major: Politics/ Political Economy Track
Language: Italian (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate), Spanish (basic)
Computer Skills: R-Language (Advanced), Python (beginner), Microsoft Office, Wordpress
Other Skills: Research design and Data Analysis, Leadership, Teamwork, Service, Writing, Sarcasm
Email: asantis@princeton.edu
Angela De Santis is an Italian Sophomore majoring in Political Economy at Princeton University with Certificates in Statistics and Machine Learning, European Politics and Culture, and Finance. She is interested in Political Economy and European Transatlantic Relations. Angela learned at her grandmother’s knee inspiring stories of southern Italian immigrants leaving Italy to find opportunities in the US. This encouraged her to fly away from her southern Italian village and chase her own American dream. Angela is fluent in Italian and English, and practiced French for 4 year. She is learning Spanish in her free time.
In her Freshman Summer of 2020, Angela interned at the P.E.M.B. in Barcelona, Spain, remotely, through an IIP (International Internship Program) sponsored by Princeton University. She researched on the impact of COVID-19 on Barcelona’s retail industry through a comparison study with Rome, Italy, and gave suggestions for the P.E.M.B.’s 2030 Strategic Plan. At the same time, Angela was selected as the recipient of a COVID-19 Grant offered by Princeton University’s Pace Center for Volunteering to study the impact of COVID-19 on meritocracy in Italian firms. Her research is still ongoing, under the collaboration and help of the Italian Forum of Meritocracy based in Milan, Italy. Angela is involved in a wide variety of Princeton Clubs. She is the president of European Horizons at Princeton, a think-tank Chapter with the goal of shaping European and Transatlantic relations. Angela is a writer for the Daily Princetonian, and she is the co-founder of the Princeton Society of Philosophy. She is also involved with the Princeton Service Focus group, Civil Society Cohort. In the Summer of 2021, she is attending a Harvard Summer Course in Statistics.