I am a full-time Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. Former Chair of the Doctoral and Master's Program in Psychology, I am also a Productivity in Research Fellow with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil). I have held prestigious appointments, including as a CNPq Senior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Psychology at Harvard University, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Communication at UFSM. Additionally, I am certified in Alcohol and Drug Counseling from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).Currently, I coordinate the LIVES Research LabSocial Clinic Psychology, a recognized CNPq research group. I am actively involved in the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP) as a member of the Social Representations Working Group, serving as vice-coordinator from 2015-2016 and again in 2023. I also serve on UFSM's Gender Equality and Internationalization Committees.As a social and clinical psychologist, my research centers on power relations, gender and feminist studies, social minorities, racism, violence, Latina sexual and reproductive rights, and the impact of (cyber)culture on subjectivity and social relations. At LIVES, we provide group psychotherapy and conduct workshops and activities for both academic and broader communities. Anchored in critical social psychology, my work draws on Social Representations Theory, Feminist Theories, Psychoanalysis, Medicalization Theory, and Critical Sociological Theories.Visit our blog at psicologiasocialbrasileira.blogspot.com or find my ORCID profile at orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-133X.