Copyright © Ornella Darova 2024–2026
Instructor, Principles of Microeconomics (ECON 130), University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2026.
Introductory undergraduate course examining the decision-making of households and firms, the functioning of a competitive market system through supply and demand, and the role of government in cases where the market system fails.
Instructor, Inclusive and Equitable Teaching, Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation, University of Pennsylvania, 2024.
Educators are responsible for creating classes in which all students feel welcome and capable of succeeding. How can identities salient to our students (race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other backgrounds) not only be valued in the classroom, but leveraged as strengths for learning? In this course, participants uncover a variety of approaches to help students learn and thrive to the best of their abilities. Participants complete a series of readings, engage in discussion on inclusive teaching, and identify skills and practices to implement in their classes to make these more inclusive.
Teaching Assistant, Public Finance, University of Pennsylvania, 2021-2022.
The main goals of this course are to develop an understanding of why and how the government may intervene in the economy, and to study the effect of government expenditure programs and taxation systems on the welfare and behavior of citizens. This course includes an analysis of the theoretical bases that guide government intervention in the economy; the discussion of a range of issues in public finance with a focus on current policy debates; and the presentation of empirical methods used in economics to evaluate the effect of public policies.
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics for Managers, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 2021.
This course establishes the micro-economic foundations for understanding business decision-making. The course covers consumer theory and market demand under full information, market equilibrium and government intervention, production theory and cost optimization, producing in perfectly competitive and monopoly markets, vertical relations, and game theory, including simultaneous, sequential, and infinitely repeated games.
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Microeconomics, University of Pennsylvania, 2020-2021.
Introductory undergraduate course that teaches the fundamentals of microeconomics.