Angie Torres-Beltran is a PhD candidate in the department of government at Cornell University. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Angie will be a USIP Peace Scholar Fellow, a Research Fellow with the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School, a Predoctoral Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California-San Diego, and a Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. Her research examines the political causes and consequences of gender-based violence, with an emphasis on political behavior and institutions in conflict-afflicted countries. More specifically, her dissertation examines how gender-based violence shapes political behavior, the historical legacies of modern state-building processes on women’s equality, and women’s public services and justice preferences. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the American Political Science Association, and the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network. Angie holds a MA in government from Cornell University and BA in international and global studies from the University of Central Florida. With the support of the Fund for Latino Scholarship, Angie plans to attend the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting to present co-authored research on how and why improvements in women’s rights are accompanied by violence against women.