I am an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Towson University. I am an agricultural and development economist and I hold a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Before starting my Ph.D. I was a researcher at the Peruvian think tank Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, where I conducted impact evaluations on financial education and did extensive fieldwork on agricultural economics, rural development, care economics, rural youth, and internal migration.

I was born and raised in Cajamarca, a small city in the Northern Andes of Peru. In my free time, I enjoy watching indie films, reading fiction and poetry, listening to a broad range of music genres, or hiking with my dogs.