Tom Sackman

Tom Sackman, who graduated in 2012 as the International Economics Student of the Year is a real estate assistant for Joan Gordon and David Cohen at Hill and Company in San Francisco, California.  Tom transferred from Santa Barbara City College  with an AA in Liberal Arts and Sciences to Chico State in 2010.  During spring 2012 Tom participated in Study Abroad in India where he taught English to children at the Snhyeedan Orphanage and assisted with recycling at Christ College in Bangalore, India.

During the summer of 2012 Tom worked as an equities research intern for DB Fitzpatrick Investments in Boise, Idaho.  In the fall he entered graduate school at the University of San Francisco.  While earning his MS Tom worked in the Solomon Islands Rural Development Program as an evaluator from January 2013 to August 2013.   He also worked as a research assistant to the World Bank in the Solomon Islands  during the summer of 2013. For his master’s thesis Tom evaluated the impacts of water projects on rural village life in the Solomon Islands.  Tom earned his MS in International and Development Economics at USF in 2014.

After receiving his MS Tom worked in sales for almost a year with BrightCurrent Solar and almost 2 years with NRG Home Solar in San Francisco.  He worked briefly with Sunrun before going to work in May 2016 with Hill and Company where he currently works.  (Last Updated 8/29/16)