PhD in Social Psychology from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) with a doctoral internship at the Center for New Racial Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She recently published the book Entre o encardido, o branco e o branquíssimo: branquitude, hierarquia e poder na cidade de São Paulo as a result of his thesis. She conducted the post-doctoral research at USP on the subject of Interracial families: psychosocial study of racial hierarchies in family dynamics (2016) that resulted in this book.