VioDemos associate researcher. Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, researcher at the Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, researcher of the Fondecyt Regular “Local Crime and Electoral Politics: Assessing the Impact on Incumbent and Challengers” and co-investigator of the Fondecyt Regular project “Women in Local Politics: Spending Patterns, Policy Outcomes, and Citizen Evaluation”.

Political Scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PhD in Political Science from Brown University.

Her area of research is ethnic politics and indigenous movements in Latin America, with special emphasis on Bolivia, Ecuador and Chile. She also studies the relationship between political phenomena and crime in Latin America.