Jésica Lorena Pla (University of Buenos Aires) holds a PhD in sociology, with a focus on social mobility in Argentina. She is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Gino Germani Research Institute (IIGG) and the National Council for Science and Technology, CONICET. In her mixed-method approach, Pla combines qualitative and quantitative data analysis to operationalize and study social class and social mobility. She has worked on and produced academic and policy outputs with colleagues from institutions across Latin America, such as the College of Mexico, University of Chile, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She leads IIGG's seminar “Social inequality, class structure and the welfare regimes.”