I am an Assistant Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. I earned my Ph.D. in political science from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2018 and my B.A. in political science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2011.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, and Revista de Ciencia Política.

My book project, Political Parties and Policy Reform: Expansion of Healthcare in Latin America, explores the variation in the expansion of social benefits across new democracies. Through the comparison of healthcare reform processes in Chile, Mexico, and Peru in the 2000s, I analyze how programmatic versus non-programmatic parties affect the quality of reform and its implementation. This study is based on original data I gathered during 12 months of field research, including over 150 in-depth interviews.


My research focuses on factors that influence the expansion of social benefits as well as political representation, including gender bias on legislator responsiveness, the expansion of the private healthcare sector, party-voter policy congruence and clientelism, and immigration attitudes. 

Read my most recent publication, ​Women Want an Answer! Field Experiments from Europe and Latin America on Gender Bias in Legislator Responsiveness (Journal of Experimental Political Science), co-authored with Gabriele Magni.

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