Political scientist

About

Born in São Paulo, I am a political scientist, a postdoctoral researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP). I study how organized crime and political violence shape political life in Latin American cities, especially in Brazil, combining quantitative and qualitative methods.

My interests are criminal governance, electoral behavior, political violence, and subnational politics in Latin America, with attention to public security, gender and racial inequality.

My work has lived inside and outside the academy. I was a researcher at the Igarapé Institute, working on public security and civic space, and I authored a report on women environmental defenders in Peru, presented at COP28. I have also worked in the Brazilian federal government, where I led the Ministry of Racial Equality’s strategy to pass the higher-education quota law, and I co-authored chapters in República em Notas, a Jabuti Prize semifinalist, on the merit-based civil service.

I hold a Bachelor’s, a Master’s, and a PhD in political science from the University of Brasília, and during the doctorate I was a visiting researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in 2025–2026. I work in Portuguese, Spanish, and English.