Holds a Doctorate and Master's degree in Education from the Graduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (PPGEDU/UFRGS). She holds a Bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from UFRGS and is a staff member at the Faculty of Education - UFRGS. She is a co-founder of Atinúké - Black Women's Thought, a member of the Black Women's Working Group in the League of Women for the Ocean, and a member of the Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science (BWEEMS) organization. She is also a member of the Afro Studies Group (GEAfro) of the Center for African, Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies of UFRGS (NEABI-UFRGS). Her research, experience, and work primarily focus on the following fields: Education and Socio-environmental Relations of Traditional and Peripheral Peoples and Communities; Environmental Racism; Education in/of Terreiros (Afro-Brazilian religious spaces); Education and the marine and coastal environment; Racial Relations and Education in Natural Sciences (Science and Biology, with an emphasis on teaching African and Afro-Brazilian cultures and histories); Dialogues between race, gender, and science.