Ben Decker is originally from the state of Maine in the Northeastern region of the United States. After graduating from Williams College in 2018 with a degree in Economics, he worked for nine months as an English teaching assistant at La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo. He then spent two years working as a research analyst at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Currently, Ben lives in Connecticut, where he's working towards a Master's in Business Administration at the Yale School of Management. Ben looks back fondly on the year he spent in Mexico, and he hopes to live and work in Mexico City after completing his master's degree.