Welcome!
I’m a PhD student in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. My research centers on gender and political behavior, with a particular focus on how men interpret political messages, construct political meaning, and increasingly align with right-wing political projects across Latin America. More broadly, I’m interested in how gendered narratives shape polarization, democratic engagement, and the symbolic foundations of political identity in high-stakes political environments.
I have several collaborative projects that examine gender, political identity, and digital behavior across Latin America. These include What Lost Elections Tell Us About the Demand for News, Affective Polarization and Support for Democratic Institutions, and The Use of Confirmation and Refutation Frames in Fact-Checking War-Related Misinformations.
At UMD, I’m a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science, where I collaborate on research involving digital trace data, political communication, and contemporary right-wing movements. My work is fundamentally multi-method and data-driven, I enjoy building original datasets, analyzing large-scale digital behavior, and using computational tools to study political meaning-making.
Before coming to the United States, I earned my Masters in International Policy Analysis and Management at PUC-Rio, an MBA at Ibmec, and undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and International Relations in Brazil. I also spent several years working in market intelligence, which shaped my interest in how people interpret information and make political decisions.
Feel free to reach out if you’d like to talk about research, methods, or potential collaborations. I’m always happy to connect.