I am a Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University's Department of Politics and a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil at the Fundação Getulio Vargas-São Paulo (2023-2024). I obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Jurisprudence, as well as a Master of Arts in Law and Governance from Montclair State University. I completed a Master of Arts in Politics at New York University. I am interested in presidentialism, populism and judicial politics. While at Princeton, I have focused on the politics of horizontal accountability in Latin America. I have written and co-authored papers that have been published by the American Political Science Association, the National Political Science Honor Society, Latin American Perspectives, and the Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements. I have presented my work at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Northeastern Political Science Association, and the Latin American Studies Association. You can email me at msrivas@princeton.edu and follow me on twitter @MishellaRomo