CV Summary

My career has been guided by the launch and implementation of editorial projects in the field of social communication, social networks and political activism and anthropology. I started on the radio because of the fascination it caused me and then I went on television helping to set up programs on a television channel in Portugal and  Angola Public Television of Angola and TPA International (Public Television of Angola), in 2008. 

I was also responsible for youth-oriented programs with high levels of popularity such as Bounce Angola (2008/2010), urban dance competition, Elite Model Look (2010/2014) contest responsible for recruiting models in Angola and the program elaborated a mapping of the Kizomba dance movement around the world called Kizomba Nation(2013/2014).

I also have experience from several countries such as Germany, the Balkan countries like Northern Macedonia where I lived and worked under the European program European Volunteer Service (2005).

In 2011, I presented the film "For the Word", directed in Struga about the UNESCO supported Poetry Festival - Struga Poetry Evenings.

Director of the magazine of Fashion and Lifestyle DIVO MAGAZINE and did research, script and interviews of the documentary Bangaologia - the Science of Style (2016).

In the academic field I went through several universities in Portugal and Germany.

In 2015 I defended my dissertation on the practice and diffusion of kizomba throughout the world under the Master in Anthropology, specialization Globalizations, Migrations and Multiculturalism, with the thesis focused on contemporary flows and circuits in culture and economy.

At this moment I am attending the Doctoral Program Politics and Display of Culture and Museology at ISCTE-IUL, NOVA FCSH Universidade Nova Lisbon with funding from FCT - PD / BD / 137669/2018. 

 

I am a researcher at CRIA - Center in Research Network in Anthropology. At the moment I am developing the research of my project "Semba as intangible heritage: politics and images of culture in Angola"

 

Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
PhD Antropologia: Políticas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia (associação) 2019
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
M.Sc. Antropologia: Multiculturalismo e Identidades 2015
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Portugal - Lisboa
M.Sc. Antropologia 2015
Universidade do Minho
Portugal - Braga
Licenciate Licenciatura em Comunicação Social 2015
Research Interests
Practices and Politics of Culture; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Dance; Music;
Sociology Social Sciences
Media and Communications Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences
Anthropology Social Sciences