EDUCATION
Nov 2022 PhD, International Development, London School of Economics, UK
Dissertation: State Agents of the Green Economy. The Political Ecology of Brazil’s International Environmental Cooperation From PPG-7 to the Amazon Fund (1990-2018)
Supervisors: Professor Kathryn Hochstetler, Professor Jude Howell
Specialization: Latin America, political ecology, development and environment, climate justice, land politics, social movements, food sovereignty, extractivism, state theory
Sep 2017 MRes, International Development, London School of Economics - Distinction
Aug 2014 Diplom (equivalent to Bachelor + Master), Sociology, University Dresden, Germany - GPA: 4.0
Thesis: The Standardization of Development Cooperation through Results-Based Management. A study of the World Bank, the Millennium Development Goal Fund, and the GIZ – Grade: A
Advisors: Professor Jost Halfmann, Professor Karl Lenz
Minors: Political Sciences, Psychology
Specialization: globalization, emerging powers, sustainable development, foreign aid
May 2012 Master of Arts, Sociology, New School for Social Research, New York, US - GPA: 3.96
Final paper: An Ethnographic case study of Occupy Wall Street
Specialization: democracy and the public sphere in Latin America, critiques of capitalism, discourse analysis, ethnographic methods
EMPLOYMENT
Oct 2021 – Nov 2022 International Relations Advisor at the Mayor’s Office and the Planning Secretariat of the City Government of PSOL (The Socialism and Liberty Party) in Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Coordinating the Pan-Amazon Social Forum 2022 in Belém, the Right to the City and Habitat program and partnerships, international solidarity, communication, publicity, and cooperation
Mar 2014 - Sep 2016 Project Manager United Nations & Global South, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, NYC (affiliated with DIE LINKE Party in Germany)
Coordinated public education programs with international and US partner organizations, universities, and activists, and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development as well as the Foreign Office (e.g. panels at the World Social Forum, the UN Commission on the Status of Women, the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; UN Framework Convention on Climate Change); coordinated the trainee program (i.e. supervision, feedback); commissioned, edited and published studies
Mar 2013 – Mar 2014 Newsperson/Correspondent United Nations, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, New York
Responsible for outreach, international correspondence, public relations, editing and publication of studies, managing media, incl. website, translation
Sep 2012 – Mar 2013 Project Assistant, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation New York
2011 - 2012 Career Services Assistant, New School for Social Research, New York
2011 Conference Promotional Assistant, Center for Public Scholarship, New York
RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Jan – Sep 2012 Research Assistant for Prof. Jonathan Bach, International Affairs, The New School
April 2012 Research Assistant for Prof. Ruth Milkman, Murphy Institute, City University of New York
March 2009 Research Assistant for Prof. Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Center for Globalization and Global Governance, Department of Social Science, University of Hamburg
TEACHING
Lent term 2022 LSE, DV415 Global Environmental Governance, teaching two seminars
PROJECTS AND COLLABORATIONS
2022 External Expert Commission to the Commission for Human Rights and Consumer Defense of the Legislative Assembly of the State of Pará (CDHeDC/Alepa), Participation and elaboration on the official report on environmental crimes related to mining and their socioenvironmental impacts
2021-2022 Jacobin Brazil, Editorial advisory, publicity, and organization for the Spring edition on Amazon resistance and climate justice, organization of the official launch event in Belém in April 2022
2018-2021 Participation in the international delegation of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Berlin, to the annual conferences of the parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP24, COP25, COP26
Since May 2020 Amazonia Minada, Translation, research, and communication
(“Brazil’s isolated tribes in the crosshairs of miners targeting Indigenous lands,” Mongabay; “Global demand for manganese puts Kayapó Indigenous land under pressure,” Mondabay; “Brazil Sees Record Number of Bids To Mine Illegally on Indigenous Lands,” Mongabay)
Since March 2020 Collaboration with the Brazilian NGO FASE Rio de Janeiro and FASE Amazonia, consultancy for the rural social movement campaign “Uprising of the People of the Amazon,” (Levante Popular da Amazonia), international strategy, organizing of events at the Panamazonic Social Forum (FOSPA 2020) and dialogue with parliamentary and civil society partners in Europe
MANAGEMENT TASKS AND REPRESENTATIVE FUNCTIONS
2018-19 ID Working Paper Editorial Team, International Development, LSE
2018 Assistant to editor, Journal of Development Studies
2016-19 PhD/Research student representative, International Development, LSE
2016-19 Student representative, Research Student Consultative Forum, LSE
2016-19 Research Committee, International Development, LSE
GRANTS AND SHOLARSHIPS
2016 – 2021 Studentship award by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK
2010 - 2012 New School for Social Research tuition scholarship for high ranking students
2010 - 2011 International Study and Training Partnership, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
2011 PROMOS scholarship for international academic studies, DAAD,
2010 – 2011 One of three annual scholarships donated by Henry H. Arnhold for outstanding students
AFFILIATIONS AND PROGRAMS
2019-2020 Visiting Researcher, Nucleus of Amazon studies (NAEA), Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
2019 Visiting Researcher, Watson Inst., Climate and Development Lab, Brown University, US/RI
2018 Visiting Researcher, BRICS Policy Center, Instituto de Relações Internacionais/PUC-Rio, Brazil
Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Relações Internacionais - Irel/UnB, Brasilia, Brazil
Visiting Researcher, Escola de Ciências Sociais, CPDOC, Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo
2009 Annual Summer School of the European Sociology Degree Programme, Granada, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
2022 “Uma Análise Eco-Socialista do Mercado de Carbono” (Trading Hot Air. An Eco-Socialist Analysis of the Carbon Market); Interview with Edmilson Rodrigues (PSOL), Mayor of Belém; in Jacobin Brazil print edition, forthcoming April 2022.
2021 “In Northern Brazil, Landless Families Resist to Persist,” NACLA Report on the Americas, print and online (English and Portuguese), November 2021.
“Brazil’s Far-Right Government Is Using COP26 to Greenwash Its Image,” Jacobin US, Nov. 2021.
“As falsas soluções do governo Bolsonaro na COP26,” Jacobin Brasil, November 2021.
“COP26: priorização das indústrias poluidoras e exclusão da sociedade civil,” of the Latin American Resistance series, Le Monde Diplomatique, November 2021.
“Rebuilding the Amazon Capital of Resistance. The City Government of PSOL in Belém, Brazil, and its work from Sanitation and Participatory Planning to Climate Activism.” Brasilicum (German), LSE Development Blog (English and Portuguese), Jacobin (Portuguese, English, German), Plateforme Altermondialiste (French).
2019 “A nature-based solution for whom? REDD+ politics in Brazil,” Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2021 “Incentives against Climate Change? Brazil’s Amazon Fund between Socioenvironmental Rights, Green Economy Hopes, and Deforestation Results.” To be submitted to World Development
2018 “Accountability and Ownership in Brazil’s Development Cooperation: The Case of ProSavana in Mozambique.” Journal of Public and International Affairs: 45.
PRESENTATIONS AND LECTURES
2022 Roundtable: Brazil at the crossroads. Further into the abyss or towards a social-ecological future? Latin America Week Nürnberg (Brasilien am Scheideweg. Weiter in den Abgrund oder auf dem Weg in eine sozial-ökologische Zukunft? 45. Lateinamerikawoche Nürnberg), 26.1.2022
Roundtable, A atuação do Brasil na política climática e a governança indígena, Centro de Desenvolvimento Sustentável-Universidade de Brasília (UnB), DRI e PGPCI, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), February 2022
2020 Roundtable “Damaging until When? Amazon Territories, Climate Crisis and Global Governance,” Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress (14.5.2020)
Inaugural roundtable “Caminhos globais pelos trópicos amazônicos: ecologias políticas e o papel da cooperação internacional,” Programa de Pós-Graduação, Núcleo de Altos Estudos Amazônicos NAEA/Universidade Federal do Pará, Brazil (5.3.2020)
Palestra “Governança Climática Global e a Amazônia Brasileira,” PPGCPRI, Universidade Federal de Paraíba, Brazil (4.2.2020)
2019 Roundtable “Brazil: Challenges, Perspectives, Possibilities,” New School for Social Research (08.04.2019)
Supporting bureaucracies or environmental justice? Assessing the forest protection projects of European donors in the Brazilian Amazon, Annual Congress, Latin American Studies Association
2018 CEBRAP Sao Paulo Advanced School of Social Sciences (SPASS), Dynamics of Contemporary Democratic Societies, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
Research presentations at Brics Policy Center, PUC-Rio; Instituto de Relações Internacionais - Irel/UnB, Brasilia; Escola de Ciências Sociais, CPDOC, FGV, Sao Paulo
Guest lecture at Universidade da Amazônia (Unama), Relações Internacionais, Belém
LANGUAGES AND COMMUNICATION
German: Native Speaker
English: Fluent in writing, reading and speaking
Portuguese: Very good skills in reading, writing, speaking
French: Very good skills in writing, reading and speaking
Italian: Basic skills in writing, reading and speaking
Spanish: basic skills in reading, writing, speaking
Latin certificate
Professional translation and interpretation: English, Portuguese, German
Formation in Nonviolent Communication at the Instituto CNV Brasil, funded by Misereor in Brazil, together with Brazilian activists from NGOs and social movements