About me
Jessica Gallardo is a distinguished McNair Scholar at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, where she is triple majoring in International Business, Marketing, and Global Languages and Cultural Studies with a concentration in German and Spanish. Her latest research project compares Germany's and the United States' utilization of foreign financial developmental and defense aid. In the past year, Jessica has presented her findings at undergraduate research conferences and symposiums across the U.S., including the highly selective National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Long Beach, California.
Jessica has spent extensive time in Germany through government-funded and personally-budgeted exchange programs such as the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program, the German American Partnership Program, and the Goethe Institute's Study Bridge intensive language summer program. Recently, Jessica was presented with two opportunities to continue her academic work during Summer 2024. She was awarded the prestigious Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro this summer as well as the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP), ultimately deciding to pursue the latter.
In addition to her academic work, Jessica recently completed an international marketing internship at the Texas Department of Agriculture, where she combined her knowledge of global markets to effectively assist the international team’s impact. Jessica also took part in social media marketing operations for the World Affairs Council of Austin. This allowed her to attend events such as the annual Texas-EU Business Summit and to meet diplomats from France, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and many others. Furthermore, for the last three years, Jessica has qualified on the international level at business competitions in events such as the Emerging Technologies Marketing Strategies and Professional Sales at the annual International Collegiate DECA Career Development Conferences.
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