Aleshka is a junior at NYU from Peru, studying applied psychology and philosophy. She's interested in what happens where behavior meets capital: venture capital, entrepreneurship, and alternative investments, where money moves on conviction and narrative long before it moves on numbers. Psychology explains why a founder's story lands; philosophy asks whether it should.

She's just as drawn to the creative side, and doesn't think it's a separate interest. Building something people care about is a design problem before it's a business one.