Brazilian post-doctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (since 2020). Researcher affiliated with the Centre for Archaeology (UNIARQ) at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2022, she has been a visiting researcher at the laboratories of Indigenous Archaeology of New England and Historical Archaeology of Latin America at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Massachusetts-Boston.

Since 2020, she has been a professor in the Lato Sensu postgraduate program in Art Theory and Criticism at the University Centre of Fine Arts of São Paulo, Brazil. Between 2018 – 2020, she collaborated on the project “Pre-Hispanic Crafts of Mexico: an ethnoarchaeological study” at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She conducts historical archaeology research with the Traditional and Indigenous communities of Southeast Brazil.

Her work focuses on the archaeology of colonialism and gender, investigating how people articulated practices, materialities, and identities to persist. She is currently the co-coordinator of the interinstitutional seminar Brazil (USP) and the United States (UMass-Boston) “Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in the Americas,” addressing themes of community archaeology, memory, and interactions between Indigenous and Afro-descendant women.