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I'm a rising fourth-year PhD student at the Humphrey School, where I research how public policies and institutions affect inequality and discrimination. Specifically, as a labor economist, I study how labor unions protect workers in labor markets where employers enjoy disproportionate bargaining power. I'm originally from Broward County, Florida, and before coming to Minnesota I received bachelors degrees in economics and international affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. During and after undergrad, I worked in an after-school youth center as a "jack of all trades," cooking snacks, keeping attendance, running billiards tournaments, and teaching music production classes. In my free time, I enjoy biking and producing music and I'm involved in local community organizing.
This is my second summer as a JSI instructor and I'm excited to delve into applied economics with this year's JSI cohort! I hope to contribute to a fun and intellectually stimulating learning environment here at JSI.
I am a doctoral fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change at the University of Minnesota. My research focuses on institutional responses to gender-based violence (GBV) in Ecuador. I earned my Master of Arts in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati (UC) where I conducted qualitative field research focused on how the political Left Turn in Ecuador impacted state responses to GBV in Ecuador. While working on my Master's, i was also a member of the University of Cincinnati Gender Equity Research Team, conducting a gender equity analysis of the City of Cincinnati commissioned by the City of Cincinnati Gender Equality Task Force. I graduated summa cum laude with her Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from the University of Cincinnati. Before joining the Humphrey School, i served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay and worked as an advocate for survivors of GBV in the United States and Ecuador for ten years. When I’m not researching, i enjoy reading, cooking, and traveling.