Signè DeWind

Signè DeWind has taught courses on economics, personal finance, entrepreneurship, and formal organizations. She was the K. W. Davis Visiting Lecturer at Trinity College, where she taught courses within the Formal Organizations minor. Prior to joining Trinity, she was the Project Director for the Stavros Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Economic Education at Florida State University (FSU). Her role included advancing economic literacy through teaching, textbook and curriculum development, and programs. While at FSU she also served as Research Associate for the DeVoe Moore Center and taught courses for the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship.

Signè is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, and enjoys promoting economic literacy across North America—particularly through partnering with organizations such as the Fraser Institute and the Foundation for Economic Education to train educators via teacher workshops and webinars, and also engage with college and high school students via student seminars. In 2018 she authored the curriculum Lessons in Economic Freedom, which is used in the classrooms of educators in Canada and the U.S. She co-authored the textbook Economic Episodes in Civics and American Government, which was published in 2022. Most recently, she co-authored two papers that are Taylor Swift-themed economic education journal articles (forthcoming): The Economics Behind the Billions: How Taylor Swift and MrBeast Can Be Used to Teach Economics, and Swiftonomics: Using Taylor Swift to Teach Supply and Demand, Exchange Rates, and Preference Reversals.