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I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, specializing in comparative politics and political methodology. I am currently a Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Foreign Service at Georgetown University.
My research interests include bureaucracy, governance, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Latin America. My dissertation, Essays on Public Procurement, examines if and how political institutions and anti-corruption reforms shape the competitiveness and quality of government contracting. To do so, I build novel datasets linking campaign finance records, firm ownership networks, and millions of individual procurement transactions, and combine causal inference with computational text analysis.
My work has been presented at APSA, MPSA, EPSA, and the Corruption in the Global South Network Conference, and has been supported by the Mercatus Center, the Institute for Humane Studies, the UVA Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation, the Quandt Fund for International Research, the UVA Quantitative Collaborative, and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Before coming to UVA, I earned an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. I co-founded React Change, a nonprofit organization focused on social impact, where I served as Head of Human Resources. I have also been a Brazilian Youth Ambassador Delegate through the U.S. State Department and a UNICEF volunteer. I am a Lemann Foundation Fellow, the co-author of the electionsBR R package for retrieving and cleaning Brazilian electoral data, and an aspiring photographer.