She holds a bachelor's and master's degrees in Nursing from the State University of Campinas (2005) and a doctorate in Nursing from the University of São Paulo (2014), with doctoral internship experience at the School of Nursing and Midwifery—King's College London (2013). She has experience in teaching, research, and outreach in the area of ​​Public Health, mainly working on the following themes: health care model, work process, health education, health promotion, health of the Black population, and anti-racist education in health. She worked as a professor in the undergraduate and master's programs in Nursing at the School of Nursing and Pharmacy of the Federal University of Alagoas (2008–2017); as a tutor for the PET-Saúde program (2009–2017); and as leader of the REDE Research and Practice group in Work, Education, and Public Health (2014–2017). Currently, she is an associate professor in the undergraduate and graduate master's and doctoral programs at the Faculty of Nursing of the State University of Campinas. She is the coordinator of the Ethnic–Racial Diversity Advisory Committee of the Executive Directorate of Human Rights; the coordinator of the Uhayele Group for Studies and Research on Social, Racial, and Gender Equity in Health; and maintains international cooperation with the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Yale University for the development of training processes based on ethnic–racial diversity and anti-racist education in health.