Dafne Murillo López is a research assistant at Columbia University’s economics department through the Bridge to the PhD program. Born and raised in Lima, Peru, she is interested in questions of race and inequality, particularly in her home region of Latin America. She is currently, among other projects, helping to develop two country-wide RCT experiments in an effort to improve anti-corruption bottom-up mechanisms in Peru. She graduated from Columbia with a double major in Economics and Latin American Studies. Through the economics honors thesis program, she evaluated the heterogeneous effects of labor legislation on citizen and immigrant domestic workers’ wages. Investigating the short-term effects of policy on this particularly marginalized population reaffirmed her commitment to pursue a Ph.D. Both Dafne’s lived and academic experiences fuel her interest in conducting research in the fields of labor, development, political economy, and economic history. The first prong of her research agenda seeks to understand how policy can help underserved groups, while the second seeks to understand why such disparities exist in the first place. Dafne hopes to continue exploring these questions through pursuing a path in academia.