Founding Team Member — Economic Mosaic

Company Description

Economic Mosaic is a student-led economics publication focused on making money, markets, policy, and economic opportunity easier to understand through professor interviews, community stories, data-driven articles, and research-based explainers.

Our goal is to build a serious student-led platform that connects academic insight with real-world experiences. Over the next few months, Economic Mosaic plans to publish consistent articles, interview professors and university researchers, speak with students, families, business owners, and community members, and use data to explain how economic issues affect everyday life.

As an emerging publication, Economic Mosaic offers early team members the opportunity to help shape the direction, voice, structure, and growth of the platform. This is ideal for high school and college students interested in economics, finance, public policy, journalism, research, writing, media, or community impact.

Role Description:

As a Founding Team Member at Economic Mosaic, you will help build the foundation of the publication. This is a remote, unpaid student leadership opportunity for high school and college students interested in economics, finance, policy, research, writing, or media.

Founding Team Members may contribute to one or more areas of the publication, including writing articles, conducting research, editing drafts, coordinating interviews, developing outreach strategies, and helping grow the platform’s audience.

On a day-to-day basis, you may help research economic topics, find credible sources and data, draft article outlines, edit written pieces, reach out to professors or community members for interviews, organize publishing schedules, and support social media or audience growth.

The publication will focus on topics such as college affordability, inflation, financial literacy, investing, labor markets, public policy, economic inequality, and opportunity.

Qualifications:

• Current high school or college student.
• Interest in economics, finance, public policy, journalism, research, writing, media, or community impact.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Curiosity about how money, markets, and policy affect real people.
• Ability to contribute consistently and meet deadlines.
• Willingness to help build a student-led publication from the ground up.
• Comfortable conducting research using articles, reports, datasets, interviews, and credible sources.
• Strong initiative, reliability, and attention to detail.
• No prior professional experience required.

Focus Areas:

Managing Editor: Help edit articles, organize publication schedules, review drafts, and maintain content quality.

Outreach & Growth Lead: Help coordinate professor interviews, community interviews, partnerships, recruitment, and audience growth.

Research Lead: Help find data, sources, charts, citations, and ensure articles are accurate, evidence-based, and credible.

Why Join Economic Mosaic:

Founding Team Members will gain experience publishing economics articles, conducting professor and community interviews, analyzing economic issues using real data, building a public-facing publication, developing leadership skills, and creating a portfolio of published work.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Selected applicants may be invited to a short interview after submitting their application.

Application deadline: June 14 at 11:59 PM.

Apply here: https://forms.gle/Bo6vzZaWgDh78Ha46

• Note: This is an unpaid student leadership opportunity.