Olá!
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I'm an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota and a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Toronto (expected Fall 2024). My pronouns are she/ela.
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My areas of specialization are critical and feminist criminology, narrative methods, and the sociology of punishment, gender, and urban marginality.
 
In my work, I analyze biographical interviews, media accounts, institutional archives, and judicial documents to investigate (i) how gendered, racialized, and economic structures inform narratives of crime and violence and (ii) how these narratives sustain patterns of interpersonal and state violence.
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I have written about fast-food corporations' discourses about meat and environmental harm, teenage girls’ narratives of homicide in Brazil, incarcerated women’s imagined futures in the United States, and incarcerated people's experiences with police violence in Baltimore, U.S. 
 
My work has appeared in The British Journal of Criminology, Women & Criminal Justice, and Cultural Sociology. 

I am working on a doctoral dissertation and book project about how economic precarity, state violence, the transnational cocaine economy, and gendered violence meet and enmesh in the lives of young women working at the bottom of the cocaine economy in the deep south of South America, in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. 

In this project, I analyze how gendered, racialized, and economic structures map onto the inner dynamics of illicit drug economies and, in turn, shape individual, collective, and legal narratives of women’s crime and violence. To do so, I analyze (i) 34 biographical narratives of criminalized young women collected in 2016 and 2023-2024; and (ii) 40 judicial documents that accuse and sentence young women  between 2014 and 2023.