Olá (Hello)! My name is Hunter Linton. I am 22 years old and from Westminster, Maryland. As a proud Marylander, I grew up playing lacrosse with our state flag's bold design covering all my gear, watching knights joust at the yearly renaissance festival, and spending my summer holidays picking crabs with my family. At 18, I left Maryland to study Economics and Hispanic Studies at Boston College. For my senior honors thesis, I studied the impact of an inflation crisis in Argentina on poverty and inequality. I was inspired by this topic after a trip I took to Buenos Aires as a freshman, where I saw firsthand the challenges of Argentines living in an increasingly expensive and strained society.
Eager to learn more about economic markets in Latin America, I applied for and was fortunate enough to receive a U.S. Fulbright Research Grant to travel to Brazil to study the supply chain and export of soybeans in the Amazon River Basin. Currently, I am living in Rondonópolis, Brazil, a small city in the Cerrado biome, a tropical savanna rich with unique flora and fauna. My research is based at the Federal University of Rondonópolis at the eastern edge of the city, where I interact with students and professors who are members of this vibrant community in Brazil. My research will also take me to Manaus, a metropolis hidden in the Amazon, and Belém, a historical gem at the mouth of the Amazon River. I am excited to share my journey with you!
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