Profile
- Interests in conflict, security, organized crime, criminal organizations, peace, and state formation in Latin America.
- Skilled in monitoring and evaluation, data analysis in conflict zones, survey-designing, dialogue, negotiation, mediation processes with multiple stakeholders.
Related skills
- Technical: Microsoft Office 365 (Excel), Stata, Atlas TI., NVivo, Mallet (Topic Modeling), R, Stata
- Languages: Spanish: Native; English: Fluent; French: Intermediate; Portuguese: Basic
Education
University of Chicago. Chicago, USA | GPA: 4.0/4.0
Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), Concentration in Political Science, August 2023
Thesis Title: “Police Trust in Conflict Zones: Exploring Critical Factors Affecting Police-Community Relationships”
Advisor: Dr. Paul Staniland, Professor of Political Science
National University of Colombia in Bogota, Colombia | GPA: 3.8/4.0
Master’s Degree in Sociology, Meritorious Thesis & Diploma, 2016
Thesis Title: “Sociological Analysis of forgiveness: Hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses”
Advisor: Dr. Carlo Tognato, Professor of Sociology
University of Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia | GPA: 3.5/4.0
Master’s Degree in Economics, 2013
BA in Economics, Minors: Anthropology; Language and French Culture, 2012
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD USA
PhD Student – Political Science KSAS, August 2024 – present
Advisor: Dr. Consuelo Amat
Achievements, awards and honors
- Research Grant, Tinker Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Chicago, 2023
- In Dialogue Award, University of Chicago Diversity Advisory Award, 2023
- Scholarship, MAPSS, University of Chicago, 2022-2023
- Colfuturo Scholarship and the Colombian government, 2022-2023
- Scholarship (for International Training Dialogue & Mediation), Uppsala University, Sweden, 2021
- Scholarship Centro de Estudios sobre Seguridad y Drogas, Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia, 2020
- Scholarship The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael in The Hague, The Netherlands, 2019
- Scholarship, Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Division of Human Security: Peace, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Policy, and Swisspeace in Gstaad, Switzerland, 2018
- Meritorious Diploma and Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2016
- Fundación CEIBA, National University and Ministry of National Education Scholarship, Colombia, 2015