I'm a rising junior at Georgetown University. With experience across Bolivia, Peru, Germany, and the United States, I have built organizations, managed financial operations, consulted on workforce development for displaced communities, and created scholarship pipelines for students from backgrounds like mine. I speak Quechua, Spanish, and English.

I study political economy because in Bolivia, 84.5% of the workforce operates in the informal economy. My mother never finished middle school. She has sold clothes from a sidewalk for over a decade. My grandfather served as a soldier in the Ñancahuazú war (where el 'Che' Guevara died) and came home to drive a mini bus for half a century. My other grandfather participated in the 1952 Bolivian revolution only to die in the countryside prematurely, forgotten by his government.

Because of them, I study institutions: how they are built, who they serve, and, most importantly, who they forget.