Selene Cueva is currently a Senior Research Associate at J-PAL LAC in Chile where she works in the impact evaluation of projects regarding labor market inclusion, disabilities, gender, and higher education. Previously, she worked for two years as the data analyst of an ed-tech project in Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. Before joining J-PAL LAC, she worked as a research assistant at the Group for Analysis of Development (GRADE) in Lima, Peru. Last year, she won the 2020 MIDIS National Award for the best social research paper by young researchers in Peru. Selene’s current research interests are social protection, disabilities, and gender. She plans to study the interactions between disabilities and labor markets. At the same time, she is interested in family planning topics and gender inequalities in developing countries. In addition, she is an economics history enthusiast. Selene earned a B.A. in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. She is from Piura, Peru.