Johanna Reyes Ortega is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at UC Berkeley, with a focus on comparative politics, gender, and the political economy of development. She is also a Resident Research Associate at the Berkeley Center on the Politics of Development and a Graduate Affiliate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Johanna’s research examines the long-term effects of conflict and social movements on gender dynamics in Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. In her dissertation, Johanna examines the determinants of gender inequality in post-WWII revolutionary contexts. Her work applies mixed causal inference and machine learning methods that employ large-scale administrative, survey, and archival data.
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Ph.D. Student
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The Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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