Project Manager of the Amazon Partners Platform (PPA).
Graduated in Agricultural Sciences from the Federal University of Acre with a specialty in Agronomy (1991), and in 2007, Master's Degree in Family Farming and Sustainable Development in the Amazon Region from the Federal University of Pará, Brazil. In 2014, PhD in Interdisciplinary Ecology at the University of Florida School of Natural Resources and Environment. Post-Doc from the Center for Latin American Studies – in the Tropical Conservation Leadership Initiative of the University of Florida (2014-2016).
From 1991 to 2007, she worked as a consultant and researcher for grassroots networks and NGOs focused on rural women's collective microenterprises and agroecology. Since 1998, she has carried out research/consultancy for many institutions such as MMA/GIZ, TNC, related to gender, agroecology, monitoring and evaluation approach. In addition, she has worked on capacity building and training related to gender development, agroecology and entrepreneurship in the Brazilian Amazon region.
She works with the gender development approach in the Brazilian Amazon region, particularly doing research with a focus on gender, forestry, rural microenterprises, and gender and climate change. Also with the development of capacities for the organization of microenterprises of rural women.