Race

Born in Japan and raised across Latin America—spending time in Nicaragua, Ecuador, and primarily Brazil—Karen was shaped by a multilingual and multicultural environment. Her past academic interests focus on international student mobility, ethnicity, and race in education and international schools. Her recent interests revolve around investigating AI policies in higher education institutions across the U.S. and Brazil, examining how these policies reflect broader socio-political and geographical contexts.

Cyclist, PhD in economic theory at the University of São Paulo; he was visiting researcher at Columbia University, is the coordinator of Insper's Center for Racial Studies and columnist of newspaper Folha de S.Paulo.