Hometown: Ipatinga, Brazil

Bio: I am a second-year M.A. candidate in Latin American Studies at Georgetown University (expected Spring 2026), concentrating in Political Economy and Development. I hold a B.A. in International Economic Relations from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). My professional background combines finance and operations—accounts reconciliation, bookkeeping, and reporting—with experience supporting multilingual communities in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. I have conducted systematic literature reviews on financial inclusion and on foreign policy in the radical right, as well as research assistance at CEDEPLAR on economic data. Broadly, my interests focus on education, inequality, race, gender, and cultural memory in Brazil and the Southern Cone.

Research Area – Substantive: Inequality; Political Economy; Development

Research Area – Geographic: Brazil, Southern Cone