Felipe Fajardo Vanegas is currently a Research Associate for the project Understanding Gang Recruitment in Medellin, Colombia. As a Research Analyst and intern, Felipe supported other projects at IPA such as Financial Education and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Colombia during COVID-19, The Impact of Emergency Cash Assistance During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia, and The Impact of Military Policing Program in Colombia. Before he joined IPA, Felipe worked on research about Inequalities in Higher Education using Social Network Analysis as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Area of Sociology at Universidad de Los Andes. Felipe holds a BA in Economics and a Minor in Sociology from Universidad de Los Andes.