Aaron Pacheco, Research Associate, Region Nine Development Commission (RNDC) Aaron works on social and economic development projects with RNDC as a research associate and geographer, and concurrently with Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His most recent projects and publications have looked at the correlations and dynamic nature between industries and local economies, development through foreign investment, and labor migration. As a research fellow at Stanford University, he learned to apply earth science to human geography through hurricane research. His majors in Geography and Geographic Information Systems, with a minor in Global Solutions in Engineering and Technology, had led him into a career in both domestic and international research, and in his doctoral program at IU.