Josefina Senese is a PhD candidate in Educational Policy Studies at Boston University. She holds an MA from the University of Notre Dame and a BA from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). Her research examines how school choice policies shape the educational trajectories of students with disabilities and multilingual learners. Drawing on longitudinal administrative data, she studies how these students move across public and private schools, access services, and experience support across instructional settings.
Josefina is a 2026–2027 AERA–NSF Dissertation Fellow and has previously received a Fulbright Fellowship, the APPAM Excellence, Equity & Inclusion Fellowship, and a Margaret McNamara Education Grant.Before joining BU, she worked in Washington DC with the Office of Learning and Impact at the Inter-American Foundation and with the Trust for the Americas at the Organization of American States.