Named for the AEC's founder and first president, the scholarship is awarded to outstanding undergraduate or graduate economics students enrolled at a metro Atlanta college or university. In total, AEC has awarded scholarship winners roughly $26,000 since 1992.

Arcaraz is pursuing an M.S. in Economics. She received her B.S. in Economics and International Affairs from Georgia Tech in May 2018. Upon graduation in May 2019, she will start full-time as a sales operation analyst at NCR Corporation.

Apollon is a third year undergraduate student pursuing a B.S. in Economics with minors in International Affairs and City Planning. Ranked second in her class, Apollon will travel abroad this academic term to study International Economics and Sociology at Sciences Po in Paris on an exchange program. Her long-term goal is to work with economic development and disaster relief in lower-income communities throughout the world.

The School of Economics is a unit of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts. 

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