Jude Wallis is a high school student in Manhattan Beach, California, and the founder of EconLearn, a free, interactive study platform for AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics.
He built EconLearn to close a gap he kept hitting as a student: AP Economics is one of the most graph-heavy AP exams, yet most prep is static text. On EconLearn, students drag real supply, demand, and AD/AS curves and watch equilibrium, surplus, and deadweight loss change in real time, then practice with AP-style questions tied to what they just saw.
Jude placed 2nd internationally at the Economics Olympiad. That competitive-economics background is the lens behind every module: the economics has to be rigorous, and the graphs have to reward curiosity.
He has also been shortlisted for the John Locke Institute essay competition in economics.
Today EconLearn includes 17 interactive graphs, 398 practice questions with explanations, flashcards, free-response (FRQ) practice, an AP score predictor, and classroom tools used by AP Economics teachers and their students.
Writing and recognition
- “What Building My First Product in High School Taught Me About Customers” ↗ , a first-person piece by Jude in YFS Magazine, a global publication for founders and small-business owners (July 2026).
- EconLearn is listed in the Colorado Department of Education's economics resource bank ↗, alongside Khan Academy and EconEdLink, and is used in AP Economics classrooms at Mira Costa High School.
- “How This Teen Made His First Software Sale to a School” ↗ , an interview with Jude on the Honest Wealth Builders podcast about building EconLearn in high school and selling it to a school district (August 2026).