Education; Monitoring and Evaluation; Professional and Technological Education; Public policy; Gender Studies; Violence; Youths.

Bachelor and Licentiate in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Specialist in Gender Studies by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). Master in Education from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos) having completed a doctoral internship at the Laboratoire Éthique Médicale of the Université Paris Descartes - Sorbonne (PARIS V) and Center dÉtudes sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien (CEAQ-Sorbonne).