I have been fascinated by knowledge exchange from a very young age. Beyond pursuing formal study, I my path was also filled with experimenting, teaching and learning through lived experience. In this journey, one of the greatest gifts I have received is to embrace the relational, processual, unfinished and situated aspects of knowledge building and sharing.

Being a researcher for me is a constant exercise in using my curiosity, analytical and creative skills to find and promote alternative, diverse and integrated ways for us humans to live as nature. And even when this purpose was still not clear to me, my academic choices and projects brought me closer to myself.

Arts, on their turn, have allowed me to collaborate in different research and artivism collectives, enriching my life with significant exchanges and growth. Creative practices move me and also work as eye-openers for self-reflection and innovative interactions with non-discursive research methods. Among pigments, threads, lyrics and silences, I have experienced first-hand how the quest for social justice needs to combine the fight for gender, racial and environmental rights.

Alongside researching and making art, political gardening is among my favourite activities! So much thatI have been working, volunteering, studying, painting and writing about my (and other people's) relationship with gardens, wild plants, permaculture and circular living for almost 15 years now.

Back in Pindorama Brazil, during the years I lived in Aotearoa New Zealand and now in Belgium, urban agriculture and reforestation initiatives are a big part of what keeps me moving. I have worked in community gardens, urban farms, and in a native plant nursery. ​

The confluence of these encounters feed my continuous flow of co-becoming!