Welcome!
I am Rahel Tekle, a graduate student in Planning and Urban Affairs at Virginia Tech, Arlington campus. My research interests focus on economic development, labor, higher education, gender, economic inequality, resiliency, spatial mismatch, and sustainable development. I specialized in combining applied mixed-method approaches and GIS.
Currently, I am exploring the economic mobility of female small business owners in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
I have earned a master’s degree in Resource Analysis, Geographical Information Science (GIS) from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
In my free time, I enjoy cooking, baking, hiking, and traveling.