Milena de Lima e Silva is a sociology PhD student at the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar (São Carlos, Brazil), with a MA in architecture and urbanism and undergraduate in social science both from the same institution, the University of São Paulo – USP. Her thesis is about Brazilian social movement’s repertoires and their contemporary political mobilization.
She is visiting the LAC during Hilary and Trinity Term 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, and is being supported by the CAPES Foundation (Ministry of Education in Brazil), with the scholarship CAPES-PrInt.