Biography

PhD candidate in Sociology at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, with research funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (2025.01028.BD). Her doctoral project investigates gender-based violence experienced by women who work simultaneously in legal education and in essential functions of the justice system. Drawing on life histories and an institutional ethnography approach, the study examines silences, silencing processes, and feminist strategies of resistance that emerge in these contexts. She holds a Master's degree in Social Rights and Public Policies (Unisc) and a Bachelor's degree in Law (Unijuí). Her academic background brings together sociology, law, and gender studies, with a focus on the relationships between institutions, normative production, and structural inequalities. She has undertaken complementary training in contemporary constitutionalism (Heidelberg Center), feminist theories (FLUC) and gender political ethics (Università di Bologna), comparative legal methodology (Università di Bologna), and evidence-informed public policies (Vladimir Herzog Institute). She has also pursued studies in participatory teaching methodologies (FGV/SP), inclusive communication free of gender stereotypes (UC), nonviolent communication (UnB), and scientific editing (Unesp). A university lecturer and social educator, she serves as an ad hoc consultant to Brazil's Ministry of Education in processes related to the regulation and evaluation of legal education, and was a member of the Technical Commission for Monitoring Evaluation (CTAA) of Inep/MEC, its appellate body. She has also developed an editorial career in the humanities and social sciences as an editor of books and scientific journals at Thomson Reuters Brazil and as an acquisitions and new business editor at Editora Saraiva, participating in the publication of hundreds of academic books and journals. She is the founder of the Feminist Network of Book Professionals and of Blimunda Press, an independent publishing initiative committed to democratizing access to knowledge and valuing the technical and intellectual work of women. She was a research fellow in the project Keeping an Eye on the Ballot Box: Women's Candidacies and Monitoring Gender Equality in the 2024 Elections, led by the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in partnership with the National Observatory for Women in Politics of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies (2024-2025), and of the RCE+ programme, co-funded by the European Social Fund (2023). She has received the Jabuti Prize in the Law category three times and was awarded the Teaching Merit Distinction by the Brazilian Bar Association. She is a member of the International Migration and Refuge Network (REDIMIR), the board of the National Women's Coalition, and the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC).