Silvia Robles is a post­doc­tor­al fel­low at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy. Her research inter­ests include the eco­nom­ics of edu­ca­tion and labor stud­ies. Her work focus­es on the tran­si­tion between high school and col­lege, and on bar­ri­ers to high­er edu­ca­tion among under-rep­re­sent­ed minor­i­ty and low-income stu­dents in the U.S. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing on an eval­u­a­tion of sum­mer pro­grams for under-rep­re­sent­ed stu­dents in STEM.