Fabiola Alba-Vivar

Fabiola Alba-Vivar is a PhD Student at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests are gender, labor and education in Latin America. She holds a MA in Economics from Brown University and a BA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. Her current work includes the analysis of school expansion interventions in risky behavior and the effects of a citizenship policy in health outcomes, both focused in the Dominican Republic. She is also studying the impacts of a higher education reform in partnership with the Peruvian Ministry of Education and the impact of STEM workshops for young girls in Peru. For the MiiE project, Ms. Alba-Vivar will validate the image analysis tools and she is excited to work in a project that is passionate about understanding children’s exposure to diversity in race gender.