Sebastian Puerta was Born in Medellin, Colombia and raised in Roswell, Georgia, he is a firstgeneration, Latinx Foundation Fellow pursuing a dual AB/MA in Economics at the University of Georgia. As a first-generation, Latinx immigrant, the financial and social struggles his family faces and the educational inequities he has experienced have compelled him to study education policy, segregation, inequality, and intergenerational immobility – the drivers of the disadvantages that marginalized communities face. Sebastian aims to tackle these problems as a researcher by using and developing cutting-edge empirical methods to estimate causal effects of policy and other social phenomena. This summer, Sebastian interned at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he focused on the gender gap in job-search and unemployment. His specific research interests include the economics of education, education policy, segregation, inequality, and social mobility.