Daniel Mooney ‘26

Daniel Mooney is assisting Professor Patrizio Piraino in exploring broad determinants of economic disadvantage in developing countries and microeconomic approaches to education and mental health resource development in low to middle-income countries. Mooney's contributions to Professor Piraino's work have involved in-depth investigations into the current state of mental health within low-income, informal settlements in South Africa through a microeconomic lens. Incorporating econometric data analysis tools, Mooney continues to evaluate those socioeconomic factors that impact underrepresented communities with a particular focus on labor, education, and development. Outside of his role as a Kellogg International Scholar, Mooney is actively involved on campus as an Undergraduate Intern in the Notre Dame Law School's Global Human Rights Legal Clinic, a Project Leader in the Notre Dame Student Policy Network, a Legal Associate in the Jubilee Initiative for Financial Inclusion, and a Leadership Fellow in the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights, where he works as a volunteer researcher for the South Bend Reparatory Justice Commission. Mooney has also been the recipient of the Center for Social Concern's immersive summer service grant through the NDBridge program as well as Summer Language Abroad grant through Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures in conjunction with Germany's Max Kade Foundation.