Dr. YING ZHEN is an Associate Professor of Business and Economics at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, where she serves as the Economics Program Director. Her major fields of specialization are Labor Economics, Cultural Economics and Industrial Organization. Specific research interests include Music Business and Economics of Immigration. As a member of Music Industry Research Association (MIRA), she collaborated with Professor Alan B. Krueger of Princeton University (founder of MIRA and the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama) on the Survey of Well-being of Musicians in the United States from December 2017-June 2018. Some key results have been cited six times in Krueger’s book that was published after his death in March 2019— “Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life”, which was released in June 2019. She considers economics a universal science, which should be open to everyone. Her ultimate goal is to help students see the world through the eyes of an economist, making them appreciate the beauty of economics and become civilized world citizens.