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Division Social Sciences Division

Department/College/Unit Latin American & Latino Studies

Title Ph.D. Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Anthropology Department
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

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Biography, Education and Training

• 2025 M.A. in Latin American & Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz
• 2022 B.A. in Psychology, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre

Research Interests

marronage, land-based struggles, and Black geographies

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistant Experience

• The Right to Health: An Introduction to Latin American Social Medicine
• Youth and Citizenship
• Unfree Migrations
• Race and Mobility
• Research in Latin American and Latino Studies
• Truth, Justice, and Statistics
• Introduction to Chicanx and Latinx Studies
• Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies
• Black Feminisms: An Introduction

Awards, Honors and Grants

• 2025 American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Doctoral Fellowship 
• 2025 Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
• 2024 LALS Qualifying Exams Fellowship, UCSC
• 2024 James R. Scobie Award, Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) 
• 2023 Graduate Student Award, UCSC Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Américas 
• 2023 UCSC Dean's Travel Grant
• 2023 Routes of Enslavement in the Américas Graduate Research Grant, UC-MRPI
• 2023 Brazilian Initiation Fellowship, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA)
• 2022 UCSC Regents Fellowship

Selected Presentations

Panel Presentations

• "Between Black Roots and Asphalt: Quilombola Political Struggles in Porto Alegre and West Pará." 17th Congress of the Brazilian Studies Association, April 3-6, 2024, San Diego State University, CA.

Guest Lectures

• "Maroons, Marronage, and Black Liberation." Undergraduate Seminar in Blackness in Motion, Department of Gender Studies, Queen’s University, Toronto, Canada, 2025 (Virtual).
• "Quilombos in Brazil." North-Northeast Reference Centers for Social Services (CRAS), Unified System of Social Assistance (SUAS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2024.
• "Silence does not erase the past: Race and ethnicity in Brazilian psychology education." Nucleus of Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies (NEABI), UFCSPA, Brazil, 2023.

Roundtable Presentations

• "Gender and sexuality in the Brazilian context: dialogues with social activists from the feminist and LGBT+ movements." Graduate Seminar in Youth and Political Action, Education Graduate Program, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2022 (Virtual).
• "Priority Vaccination of Indigenous and Quilombola Communities." National Directory of Medical Students, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2021 (Virtual).

Selected Publications

Journal article

A universidade como espaço de luta: as experiências políticas de jovens militantes de Porto Alegre (RS), with Camila B. Liebgott & Samantha M. Ferreira. 2022. Cadernos de Pós-graduação (Uninove) 21(2): 59-73.

Book chapter

Acolhimento emocional na delegacia especializada no atendimento à mulher (DEAM): relato de experiência, with Anna Júlia Carrión & Clarissa De Antoni. 2021. In Contribuições da psicologia para enfrentamento à violência contra mulheres: aportes teóricos e práticos, edited by L. Habigzang, & J. Zamora. Dialética.

Public scholarship

Between Black Roots and Asphalt: Quilombola Land Struggles in Brazil. 2025. Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas: Open Forum, February 24.