William Yoo

William Yoo is a Dr. Margaret A. Olsen & Dr. Joseph N. Marcus Civic Scholar from Columbia, Missouri. They are majoring in economics and minoring in sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences.

For their Civic Summer, William pursued a research project on slavery reparations designed to complement the work of the St. Louis Reparations Commission. The project culminated in a paper titled “A Preliminary Comparative Treatment of Lineage-Based Reparations as Economic Policy Interventions.”