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Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia

Research Associate for the Applied Research & Methods Group at Innovations for Poverty Action

Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

Research analyst for the Project Asking About Violence of the University of Illinois Chicago.Project “Asking About Violence: Improving Ethics in Violence Research”.• Monitored fieldwork activities by creating and updating data trackers for the data collecting process (sample progress), data quality controls, and safety conditions of the team.• Monitored collected data, and explored datasets through SurveyCTO.• Managed communication between the field team, data-collection firm staff, and research team: protocol instructions, followed up on specific situations related to data quality and safety conditions, implemented feedback, and all communication issues coming in from the field team supervisors and enumerators.• Supported the review, translation, and editing of protocols and manuals related to the follow-up survey.• Supported the review and translation of survey instruments.• Supported the research manager in the coordination and articulation of weekly meetings with the field team supervisors.• Implemented fieldwork monitoring trips in various municipalities of Antioquia.• Supported the implementation of in-person training activities.• Supported the risk assessment and characterization of the municipalities included in the study.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

•Project “Breaking down stereotypes for a better access to justice”; executed between USAID, Chemonics International and Universidad del Valle.• Supported the design and application of a quantitative methodology with a behavioral and experimental approach to diagnose the perception of justice and presence of social norms in 12 municipalities in Colombia.• Participated in the design of quantitative instruments to collect data: survey and protocols.• Managed the data bases of the project starting from its construction, systematization, merge, standardization, cleaning and processing with both R Studio and STATA.• Estimated econometric models, indicators and statistical measures (parametric and non-parametric) for technical reports.• Designed, structured and carried forward the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan of the intervention implemented by the project, starting from the proposal of management, result, product and impact indicators, to their estimation and presentation.• Supported the design, implementation and measurement of a behavioral public policy intervention to improve access to justice by reducing stereotypes in 12 municipalities in Colombia.• Coordinated and implemented field work activities: survey-experiment application and focus groups execution.• Guaranteed the procurement, filling out and updating of financial and logistical reports and forms related to the development of fieldwork activities.• Participated in the recruitment and training of technical personnel for fieldwork activities, and in the articulation with USAID liaisons in the territory.

Research assistant at Económics Research Center of the Banco de la Republica de Colombia. •Managed the data sets of the research projects by constructing, collecting, cleaning, tidying, and updating them.•Supported the data analysis and visualization by constructing graphs and estimating descriptive statistics, indices and weighted indicators with STATA.•Conducted academic literature reviews and, consulted and organized governmental information (decrees).

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

•Led the project “Data Quality and Database Standardization” implemented by the Analytics and Economic Studies Management. •Developed a methodology aimed at ensuring the integrity and quality of all databases, focusing on it's cleaning, organization, storage, and analysis.• Constructed indicators related to the progress of the project which quantified the intervened dimensions defined in the proposed methodology. •Coordinated the articulation won internal stakeholders, generated presentations,and supported the creation of a database repository.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

Undergraduate teaching assistant for Econometric I and Econometric II courses, Economics Bachelor Program, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Universidad del Valle. Responsible for grading assignments, reinforcing theoretical topics, and instructing practical sections on statistics and econometrics applications using R Studio.

Colombia

Teaching assistant of the "Econometrics II" course, Economics Bacherlor Program, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Universidad del Valle.

Cali, Valle Del Cauca, Colombia

Teaching assistant of the "Econometrics I" course, Economics Bachelor Program, Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, Universidad del Valle.

Economista, Macroeconomía, Finanzas, Econometría, Econometería Espacial, Pobreza Y Educación

English Program "Kids And Teens", English Language

Activities and Societies: Speaking, Listening, Writing and Reading