👩‍🌾 Born into a legacy of smallholder farmers, I witnessed the bittersweetness in the work and dedication of my ancestors as they toiled under the blazing sun - or the freezing winter - to harvest their crops in rural South Brazil.

👶 First child of the first generation that left the farm for a city job, I grew up sick and weak. Until one day a wise farmer opened my father's eyes: "go back to your roots and start feeding her the wholesome, nutritious food that sustained your people for generations".

🔬 An infectious passion to understand the food-health connection grew up with me and I got nerdy about it. In college I was hooked: molecular biology was a new kind of magic! I dived deep to understand how molecules interact and learned how to modulate them to improve health and cure disease.

🔭 Zooming out, in big pharma - working with cells, organs, and organisms - I understood systemic effects in the body and learned to modulate those too. Studying sustainable crop protection, the universe of modulating molecular interactions in plants and their environmental effects was unveiled.

👩‍🔬 With an unstoppable curiosity, in California I immersed myself in cutting edge science discussions - all things microbiome, urban agriculture, and entrepreneurship. I learned how food production could be optimized by smartly design and modulate interactions amongst all kinds of living organisms. With my biologist's spirit, I felt it was possible to reintegrate the human species back into the environment - and the secret lay in food! With past, present, and future (mind, emotion, and action) aligned I knew it was time to act!

🧬 My passion for biology and food systems has led me on various adventures. Over the years, I have built the determination and courage to approach everything with a beginner's mindset - free from biases and labels. The journey has gifted me with a unique ability to analyze and interpret complex problems from multiple perspectives, always recognizing that context is the key to successful, impactful, and lasting transformation. Today, I am not an expert in a single domain: my superpower lies in connecting diversity to generate systemic impact.

🧗‍♀️ My next big challenge? The future of the global food and agriculture industry. My mission, inspired by my research subjects, is to be a catalyst - accelerating food systems transformation by connecting key stakeholders. To enable future proof food systems to come about faster!

🏄‍♀️ I am ready to answer the question "what's next?" in the agri-food sector. Are you? Then let's connect to leave a long lasting legacy of positive change in this blue spinning rock we call home! For me, there's no greater purpose than this.