Maria is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, but grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. At Duke University, she studied public policy, cultural anthropology and French, and spent her summers and a semester abroad studying youth labor migration in Togo, India, and China. After graduating in 2014, she worked for two years at a Maryland nonprofit called Identity, which provides after-school education, workforce development, and other support services to Latino youth and their families. In 2017, Maria joined DAI, a USAID implementing partner, where she managed two local governance projects – one in Honduras and the other in Kosovo. After year one of her MPA studies, she interned with Innovations for Poverty Action's office in Bogotá, Colombia. At Princeton, Maria studies international development with a focus on youth, education, migration, and workforce development. After graduating from the MPA, she aspires to work for international organizations such as UNICEF, or an international social enterprise. Maria enjoys cooking, yoga, soccer, krav maga, and all forms of arts and crafts.