Payton Odom

Paytom Odom, a mathematical economics and political science major from McKinney, Texas, graduated from Rice University in 2009. He assisted in research evaluating microcredit strategy analysis projects by Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation at the Inter-American Foundation in Washington, D.C., in summer 2007. He presented the results of his research, “Credit in Context: Examining Regulatory Impact on Community-based Microfinance Initiatives in Latin America,” at the Baker Institute in September 2007. In 2006, Payton was a research assistant for John Diamond, fellow of the Tax and Expenditure Policy Program of the Baker Institute, and was recommended for participation in the summer in D.C. program by Diamond. In spring 2009, Payton was a research assistant for Michael Lindsay of the Department of Sociology at Rice University, and in summer 2009, he worked as the Human Capital Summer Scholar for Deloitte in Dallas, Texas. In the fall of that year, he became a fellow of the Trinity Forum Academy in Royal Oaks, Md. In fall 2010, he started as a research analyst at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas, Texas.