Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio
Project Coordinator: Geographies of Injustice: Gender and the City
Ana Luiza de Abreu Claudio holds a BA in Journalism from the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), and an MA in Social Sciences from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ). Her research focuses on visual arts and social memory from under-represented territories, especially favelas and indigenous communities, with an emphasis on photography. From a broader perspective, she aims to work with the Latin American feminist visual arts scene and their connections with activism and the geopolitical imagination.
Before Columbia, Ana Luiza worked for 16 years as an art curator, researcher in visual arts and as a project coordinator and teacher in photography. Ana Luiza has wide experience in complex environments such as conflict zones, isolated communities, and extreme poverty territories. Throughout her career she developed a variety of projects across Brazil and abroad, including several initiatives in the Amazon rainforest, the Cerrado region, Rio’s favelas, the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
Ana Luiza has undertaken efforts in the visual arts, digital humanities, preservation of material and immaterial cultural heritage, community and popular media, socio-environmental programs, and communications projects with indigenous groups. Ana Luiza has accomplished such work in the domain of public institutions and non-governmental organizations but has also developed partnerships in the private sector.
Before joining Columbia University in the Fall of 2022, Ana Luiza worked for 8 years as the coordinator of the Social Action department of the Moreira Salles Institute (IMS), Brazil’s most influential cultural institution. Ana is a PhD student in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University.
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