Joana Alexandre holds a 5-year degree in clinical psychology and advanced specialization in psychotherapy accredited by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP), along with EMDR-N1 certification. Her academic journey includes a master's and PhD in social psychology from ISCTE, supplemented by an internship in Adelaide, Australia. During the last 15 years she has been monitoring and doing impact evaluations in different funded social projects – at a local level, with municipalities (e.g., C4i: Communication for Integration) and at a national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion; By your side) - planning, collecting and analysing data, and writting reports of results & recommendations. Joana Alexandre was also Quality Monitor of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for an international study from OECD on socioemotional competences (2018). She has been coordinating (project management) at a national level Erasmus+ projects or integrating other Erasmus+ projects on inclusion and education (e.g., GRIT, Yard4all; KidLe). She coordinated the developed of a set of materials for child friendly justice in another funded project (Projeto 12 - Jus). She was technical and scientific consultant for Gulbenkian Foundation (Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies from 2019-2022) and more recently she is consultant for ACRIDES Foundation (Cabo-Verde), focusing on children’s rights, child friendly justice, and the prevention of sexual abuse, and for the Council of Europe, in a project on child-friendly justice. Joana has also been involved in the ISCWeB project focusing on international perspectives on child subjective well-being, a project supported by experts from OCED, UNICEF and World Vision. During the last years, she has been involved in the development of materials for the promotion of children’s rights (e.g., Direitos em Jogo) and for the primary prevention of child sexual abuse (e.g., Picos e Avelã à Descoberta da Floresta do Tesouro; Búzio e Coral), and has been providing training in those topics for social workers, teachers/educators and magistrates. She was part of the director committee of the Child Safeguarging in Sport (Portugal) and provided training for different sports directors on sexual violence in sports. She was director of the Master in Community and Child Protection at Iscte (2018-2019). Recently (May, 2023) she became member of Grupo VITA – Group for supporting victims of sexual violence in the context of the Catholic Church in Portugal.