Carlos José Celis is a PhD candidate in Public and Urban Policy at The New School. His research topics include social reproduction theories and the politics of science and technology. He has worked as a policy and design practitioner and researcher in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and the United States. Currently, he is a doctoral fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design, Ethnography & Social Thought (GIDEST), and he also works at the Urban Space Lab researching the aftermath of COVID-19 on immigrant caregiving systems in Queens, New York. Carlos holds a BA in Design (2017) and a Master in Public Policy (2020) from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia, and an MPhil (2024) from The New School.
As the Child Protection Research and Measurement Fellow, Carlos will embed within the Child Protection team of IRC’s Violence Prevention and Response Unit and will contribute to a range of measurement and research activities. His primary responsibilities will include: developing measurement frameworks for child protection interventions across IRC country programs in line with intervention theory and design; and contributing to the development of monitoring tools like questionnaires and interview guides to systematize the measurement approach across the sector.