I'm an anthropologist and environmental journalist, interested in the intersections between capitalism, ecology, climate change, indigeneity, Human Rights, global health, environmental health, deforestation, industrial agriculture, and toxicity in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado. My theoretical reflection is transdisciplinary and inspired by the fields of Anthropology, Geography, Environmental Humanities, Science and Technology Studies, as well as Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies.

 

I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of São Paulo and have previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University (2023) and as a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University (2022).

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I hold a PhD degree in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo (Brazil), where I've developed a multilayered ethnographic description of the destruction of life forms on the banks of the Tapajós River (Brazilian Amazon) and the Indigenous ways of doing politics and resisting ongoing colonial violence. In 2023, my dissertation received a prestigious award from the University of São Paulo in the field of Humanities. 

As a journalist, I've been a Pulitzer Center grantee four times, and published with a wide variety of media outlets, including National Geographic, Wired, The Guardian, Mongabay, E-flux, Thomson Reuters Foundation as well as the main media outlets in Brazil (Folha de São Paulo, revista Piauí, Estado de São Paulo, UOL, InfoAmazônia, Joio e o Trigo, Agência Pública, among others).

 

I'm the author of "The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest" (Milkweeds, 2022), which has been praised by the New York Times, The Economist, The Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. I'm also the author of "Em Rota de Fuga: ensaios sobre escrita, medo e violência" (Hedra, 2020).