PhD in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She holds a Master’s Degree in Citizenship and Human Rights: Ethics and Politics at the University of Barcelona (2010) and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation at the European Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (2005), undertaken in Italy and Denmark. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law at UB (2004). Since 2011, she is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. From 2015 and 2016, she was one of the 20 experts from all over the world who took part in HABITAT III Policy Unit on the Right to the City and Cities for all. The work of this Policy Unit nurtured the drafting of the New Urban Agenda adopted at HABITAT III. From 2007 to 2014, she served as Executive Coordinator of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of the global network United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). In this framework, she created and coordinated the Inclusive Cities Observatory. Her main interest areas are the right to the city, public policies, local government, postcolonial studies, social emancipation, urban art and urban social movements.
