Her work has been published in specialized journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Educational Psychological Measurement and Higher Education. Her interests combine educational measurement and educational policies, and have focused on access to higher education and teacher quality. She is the editor of Pensamiento Educativo, an educational research journal focusing on Latin American educational issues. She received her Ph.D. in Education from the University of California Berkeley in 2007 and a Master's in Public Policy from the same university in 2001.