Isabel Álvarez

María Isabel Álvarez is a Political Science Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley in the Comparative Politics concentration. Her research centers on comparative constitutional design, executive constraints and states of emergency, with a regional focus on Latin America. Before joining Berkeley, Isabel worked as a researcher in the Centro de Estudios Públicos think tank and Fundación Multitudes, both Chilean organizations. Her research on the procedural architecture and decision-making dynamics of the Chilean Constitutional Process (2021-2022) been published in Global Constitutionalism. She holds an M.A. in the Social Sciences and a B.A. in Political Science (with honors) and Romance Literatures & Languages from the University of Chicago.