Growing up in the heart of the Amazon Basin exposed me to its extremely humid hot weather and innumerable cumulus clouds, replaced at night by countless stars reflecting on the waters of the Madeira River. The Amazon Basin is home to a rich ecosystem of life that is about to become a folk tale.

 

As a woman born and raised in the Amazon Rainforest, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, I have seen the progression of climate change affecting the vivid green view by turning it dead brown because of incessant fires. 

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The lack of environmental reporting coming from Amazonian journalists motivated me to pursue a Master of Science in Communication with emphasis in Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk (CommSHER) at the University of Utah, where I am now a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

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Previously a digital media intern for Southern California Public Radio, I graduated in broadcast journalism with a minor in writing and rhetoric from California State University, Northridge. 

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As an award-winning journalist with a vast experience of media practices, I have won a California State Publication Award in online photo story/essay, a scholarship award given yearly to only five students across the United States, and ranked the second most read LAist article in November 2021 about the longest lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years.

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From sending a research report to Brasil's Former Minister of the Environment to moderating a panel discussion about the intersection between wildfires and climate change broadcasted on Channel LA 36, my career goal is to be a foreigner correspondent from the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest and, down the road, become the next Brazil's Minister of the Environment.

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I have experienced first-hand the Amazonian civilization's acceptance of smoke as part of the Amazon’s weather and the anguish of Indigenous figures fighting since birth for their lands, only to see it being replaced by pasture and cattle-ranching farms.​

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With climate change threatening humanity and animal species’ survival, I have dedicated my life to ensure the Amazon does not become a brown wiped-out spot from satellite view by keeping environmental journalism at the global forefront of conversation.