Fernando Calderón Figueroa

Fernando Calderón Figueroa is the recipient of the Blanche and Sandy Van Ginkel Graduate Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto. Before joining U of T, Fernando worked developing policy-oriented data on political engagement, local communities, and indigenous peoples for the Peruvian government. He currently studies the relationship between the built infrastructure of cities and social solidarity. His main interests are urban and political sociology, social policy, and quantitative and computational methods.