Camila Porto recently graduated from the Master in Applied Economics at Northeastern University, with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. She was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and currently she is doing her post-academic training in the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School. During her Masters, she worked with Prof. Bilge Erten and Prof. Catalina Herrera as a research assistant in topics related to Gender and International Development like internal migration in West Africa and time allocation and water resources in India. Back in Uruguay, she worked at CIEDUR an NGO focused on Interdisciplinary Development Investigations in the area of gender and labor market.