I am a faculty member at University of Vermont in Burlington, VT. I hold a PhD in Economics and Political Science, from the Department of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University (Claremont, California 91711, USA). I earned a M.A. degree in International Political Economy at Claremont Graduate University in May 2018 and a M.A. in Economics and Finance at University of Pavia in December 2014. My research interests are in the fields of Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Comparative Politics, and International Political Economy. My research focuses on issues relating inequality, poverty, and migrations. I was an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, California 90045, USA) and Lab Manager at the Inequality and Policy Research Center (Claremont, California 91711, USA), as well as a Faculty member at the prestigious Ransom Everglades School in Miami, FL. I have lived in Italy, Germany and USA, and I speak fluently five languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, and German).