Eduardo Gomes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He hold a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on a failed project of turning Brazil into an exporter of manufactured products before the neoliberal reforms. He has been a Visiting Professor in a couple of colleges in the United States, including as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. He was awarded the “Amos Chair of Eminent ...
May 29, 2025•28 min•Ep. 83
Rubens Glezer is a professor of Constitutional Law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo. He holds a PhD in Legal Theory from USP, a Master's in Law and Development from the Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a visiting researcher at NYU (New York University). Glezer is a specialist in Brazil's Supreme Court and is the author of several research and scientific works, as well as a frequent commentator in the media about the country's higher court. He is the author of the book "Re...
Apr 28, 2025•36 min•Ep. 82
Heloisa Galvão is a co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group and its Executive-Director. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Decoration “Ordem do Rio Branco” awarded by the President of Brazil to Brazilians living overseas who are recognized by outstanding services to Brazil and Brazilian immigrants (September 2002). She holds Master degrees in Print Journalism and in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. Her latest publications are “A Ditadura como eu lembro” (The dict...
Mar 30, 2025•44 min•Ep. 81
João Carlos Jarochinski Silva is Professor at Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of International Relations and the Sociedade e Fronteiras (Society and Borders) Postgraduate Programme. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Núcleo de Estudos de População Elza Berquó (NEPO/Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (International Relations) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), and a Masters in International Law from Universidade Ca...
Feb 26, 2025•39 min•Ep. 80
Marianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights policy and advocacy, Marianna has worked, among others, with the Brazilian National Truth Commission, the United Nations Development Program, the International Rescue Committee, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She has taught ...
Jan 24, 2025•38 min•Ep. 79
Vera Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo, where she has taught since 1987. She is dedicated to psychosocial approaches to inequality and sexuality and to the innovation of health practices (prevention and care) based on human rights, with an emphasis on STIs/AIDS and covid-19. She has extensive collaboration with AIDS Programs (national, state and municipal) and Covid-19 response networks. She is a researc...
Dec 17, 2024•42 min•Ep. 78
Camila Rocha is the Scientific Director of CCI/Cebrap. A PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, she won the USP Thesis Award and the best doctoral thesis award from the Brazilian Political Science Association. A finalist for the 64th Jabuti Prize with the book Less Marx, More Mises: Liberalism and the New Right in Brazil, she also serves as Global Advisor for Our Common Home (Geneva), is a member of the board of the Instituto Democracia em Xeque (Democracy in Check Institute ...
Dec 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 77
CartaCapital e o WashingtonBrazilOffice (WBO) transmitem uma edição especial do podcast Brazil Unfiltered para debater o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas e como a vitória de Donald Trump contra Kamala Harris poderá impactar o futuro das relações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos. O encontro conta com a participação de: James Naylor Green, presidente do Conselho Diretivo do WBO André Pagliarini, professor de História e Estudos Internacionais na Louisiana State University Vânia Pen...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 76
Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order i...
Oct 31, 2024•35 min•Ep. 75
Tainah Santos Pereira is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She was a Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Program on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2022 at Stanford University. She is interested in the topics of financing for development, reform of the i...
Sep 29, 2024•41 min•Ep. 74
Isabel Figueiredo is an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 years, supporting community initiatives that generate socio-envir...
Sep 03, 2024•39 min•Ep. 73
Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University, a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. He is a 2022 and 2023 faculty fel...
Jul 29, 2024•43 min•Ep. 74
Debora Diniz is a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and research for evidence-based advocacy, policy change, and strategic litigation on health and rights. Diniz served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Fòs Feminista (2018-2023), an international alliance ...
Jul 01, 2024•35 min•Ep. 73
A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California’s vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove is also a fierce advocate for the African diaspora both i...
May 23, 2024•35 min•Ep. 72
Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Juliana has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations & ...
Apr 29, 2024•46 min•Ep. 71
Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva and a consultant in youth and adult education and develo...
Mar 27, 2024•49 min•Ep. 70
Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is the author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negoti...
Feb 28, 2024•38 min•Ep. 69
Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international media outlets to discuss issues associated with police and crime...
Jan 24, 2024•45 min•Ep. 68
In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarini is also assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson ...
Dec 14, 2023•50 min•Ep. 67
Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and Mercosur. Nationally, Raísa has extensive experience with the development o...
Nov 24, 2023•36 min•Ep. 66
Athayde Motta holds a master’s degree in Anthropology and a master's degree in Public Affairs (both from the University of Texas at Austin). He has a long career in the areas of international development, management of civil society organizations (CSOs) and program and project development. He worked for Oxfam GB and the Ford Foundation and was the Executive Director at IBASE and the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity. He's been a member of the Executive Committees of both the Brazilian Association of ...
Oct 25, 2023•45 min•Ep. 65
Mila Burns is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; Editora Cobogó, 2021) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). Mila has an interdisciplinary profile, with an emphasis on me...
Sep 10, 2023•42 min•Ep. 64
Natalia de Campos is a performance and theater artists, producer, writer, educator, translator and activist born in São Paulo, Brazil. She has lives in New York for the last 25 years, where she founded the multidisciplinary arts collaborative Syncretic Pleasures, to produce performance and arts events with different collaborators. She has taught English and Portuguese about different social movements in Brazil to non-native speakers for many decades while also producing and performing works by B...
Aug 17, 2023•43 min•Ep. 63
Luis Adams is a partner of the Litigation, Arbitration and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados. In the Brasília Office, he is responsible for matters related to Superior and Supreme Courts. Adams has extensive tax experience, working as Counsel for the Federal Treasury at the Ministry of Finance for 24 years, from 1993 until his resignation request in 2017. He worked as Secretary-General of Litigation for the Attorney-General of Brazil (2001-2002) and as Legal Counsel and Adjun...
Jul 19, 2023•43 min•Ep. 62
Fabio Sá e Silva is an associate professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated as a fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. As an institution builder, Fabio codirects the Oklahoma University Center for Brazilian Studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian...
Jul 05, 2023•41 min•Ep. 61
Rafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labour, communication/m...
Jun 21, 2023•46 min•Ep. 60
Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I wish wasn't happening and interviewing a lot of great people trying to stop it". Between 2012 and 201...
May 31, 2023•36 min•Ep. 59
Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida, P.H.D. in Political Science, is senior researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP), retired Professor of Political Science and former dean of the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo (2009-2013). Her books include Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil – Balancing Power in Emerging States, written with Gian Luca Gardini, and Os Anos de Ouro - Ensaios sobre a democracia no Brasil (The Gilded Years – E...
May 18, 2023•43 min•Ep. 58
Jan Rocha is a British born journalist and writer who was correspondent for the BBC World Service and The Guardian in Brazil from the 1970s to the 90s and currently writes about politics for LAB (Latin America Bureau). Her books about Brazil include Murder in the Rainforest: The Yanomami, the Gold Miners and the Amazon and Cutting the Wire (the story of the Landless Movement in Brazil) with Sue Branford, for which they won a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1999. In 2020 she published Nossa Corresp...
May 03, 2023•41 min•Ep. 57
Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. He is a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office, where he co-edits the weekly n...
Apr 19, 2023•45 min•Ep. 56
