SEDC hires summer interns for special projects

​Esther Varnum is a current intern at SEDC. Her work has included grant research and application writing in addition to assisting in the recommendation of potential projects that are presented to the Board. She has also created a Three Statement Model in Excel that uses a business’ financial history to project their future financials.
Esther is pursuing a B.S. in Statistics at the University of New Hampshire and will graduate in the spring of 2020.


Jack Russo recently completed his internship at SEDC. His work at SEDC involved analyzing and interpreting financial spreadsheets as well as assisting in the loan application review process of potential borrowers. One of Jack’s biggest contributions to SEDC was the creation of a program that utilizes an R based logistic regression to determine the likelihood of loan repayment of a borrower. 

A 2019 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Jack holds a B.S. in Information Technology with a concentration in Finance and has accepted a financial consultant position at Merchants Auto.