Balaio
Community app connecting local producers, regenerative projects, and impact-aligned consumers in Brazil.
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Projects & Trajectory
Active contributions, current initiatives, and archived field work across Latin America.
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Blockchain na Escola
Brazil's first blockchain education program in public schools. 30,000+ on-chain certificates across 5 states.
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Cryptorastas
Music and culture community at the intersection of Web3 and Afro-Brazilian traditions.
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CeLatam
Researcher & DAO Member
Research grantee and DAO governance member. Articles and research coordination across ReFi, RWAs, and stablecoins in Latin America.
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Impact Plus
Researcher
Impact measurement research and methodology development for regenerative and social projects. Applied data management competences to regenerative finance.
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UNESCO-SOST
Affiliate Researcher
Affiliated with the UNESCO Sustainability Science hub, contributing to governance and institutional research.
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Ekonavi
Partner — Researcher & Web3 Lead
Led research for the LIFT Lab program by the Central Bank of Brazil. G20 BIS Hackathon winner. Web3 integration and tokenomics development. Data management frameworks for financial applications.
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Crypto Commons
Association
Contributor
Research and writing on collaborative finance, commons-based protocols, and Web3 governance.
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Liga Colaborativa
Advocacy Director
Applying AI, blockchain, and georeferencing to support traditional communities in territorial conflicts. Hyper-Territorial Intelligence methodology. Data management for sustainability and blended finance flows.
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GiraHub
Contributor
Web3 community space and events hub for builders and regenerative projects in Brazil.
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Let's CoCreate
Contributor
Practical Web3 education platform combining live cohorts, on-chain reputation badges, and project incubation. Partners include CeLatam and Blockchain na Escola.
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ReFiDAO
Contributor
Contributor to the global regenerative finance DAO. Continued data management and cleaning for community and impact datasets.
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ReFi Spring
Co-founder
Co-founded ReFi Spring, a regenerative finance community initiative that merged into ReFiDAO in 2023. Data management: structuring and cleaning community datasets.
Trajectory
Teaching path alongside professional projects. Academic research trajectory is in the Archive.
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Teaching
- 2010 — Coordinator, PECS (Projeto Educacional Compartilhando Saberes), a university extension program connecting students from the Federal University of Espírito Santo with public-school youth for academic mentorship.~200 students
- 2011 — Volunteer teacher, Pré-Vestibular Atitude: Current Affairs and Political Geography.~50 students
- 2012–2016 — Co-founder and Coordinator, Caleidoscópio, a university extension project on youth culture and public access to the arts (became a University Program after years of strong results).40+ activities and organizations registered
- 2013 — Social Educator, ALAS: supported at-risk youth in social recovery programs.
- 2016 — Teacher, Secretaria de Educação do Espírito Santo (SEDU/ES); coordinated the student research project "Impacto da alimentação na performance de jovens profissionais," selected for the Brazilian Science and Engineering Fair.~200 students
- 2018 — Professor, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES): Philosophy of Law and Introduction to Philosophy.~100 students
- 2019–2021 — Professor, Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo (IFES): Foundations of Education across Pedagogy, Agricultural Sciences, and secondary programs; supervised postgraduate capstone projects and advised graduate students on education and ethnicity research.~400 students
- 2020 — Instructor, Postgraduate Program in Pedagogical Practices (IFES, distance learning).~50 students (all teachers)
- 2022 — Hosted the introductory Token Engineering Academy course in Brazil.6 projects
- 2022–present — Founded Blockchain na Escola (see Active projects above), Brazil's first blockchain education program in public schools.30k+ students certified, 40+ partnerships concluded
- 2022–present — Presented and organized dozens of workshops, meetups, and trainings.
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