Brazil Unfiltered

Eduardo Gomes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He hold a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, with a dissertation on a failed project of turning Brazil into an exporter of manufactured products before the neoliberal reforms. He has been a Visiting Professor in a couple of colleges in the United States, including as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. He was awarded the “Amos Chair of Eminent Professor of Latin American Studies” at Columbus University, Georgia. His fields of interests are Interest Politics, Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. He has conducted research on business politics, small business, corporate social responsibility, and comparative political economy of development, having published a number of articles and book chapters on these topics in Brazil and abroad. Currently, he is working on state capacities of emergent countries, focusing on advising councils and new arenas of publi

Rubens Glezer is a professor of Constitutional Law at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Law School in São Paulo. He holds a PhD in Legal Theory from USP, a Master's in Law and Development from the Getúlio Vargas Law School and is a visiting researcher at NYU (New York University). Glezer is a specialist in Brazil's Supreme Court and is the author of several research and scientific works, as well as a frequent commentator in the media about the country's higher court. He is the author of the book "Resiliência e Deslealdade Constitucional" (Resilience and Constitutional Disloyalty), nominated for the prestigious book award Jabuti Prize in 2024.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National C

Heloisa Galvão is a co-founder of the Brazilian Women’s Group and its Executive-Director. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Decoration “Ordem do Rio Branco” awarded by the President of Brazil to Brazilians living overseas who are recognized by outstanding services to Brazil and Brazilian immigrants (September 2002). She holds Master degrees in Print Journalism and in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. Her latest publications are “A Ditadura como eu lembro” (The dictatorship how I remember it) in Caminhando e Contando. Memória da ditadura brasileira (Walking and Telling. Memories of the Brazilian dictatorship), printing EDUFBA – Federal University of Bahia, 2015, and “An Oral History of Brazilian Women Immigrants in the Boston Area”, in Passing Lines, Sexuality and immigration (Edited by Brad Epps, keja Valens, and Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005.)Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been

João Carlos Jarochinski Silva is Professor at Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) in a joint appointment at the Faculty of International Relations and the Sociedade e Fronteiras (Society and Borders) Postgraduate Programme. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Núcleo de Estudos de População Elza Berquó (NEPO/Unicamp), and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (International Relations) from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), and a Masters in International Law from Universidade Católica de Santos (UniSantos). He was a visiting researcher at The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies (CLALS) of American University in Washington, D.C. He has worked with migration and refuge issues since his Master’s degree and is actively involved in the assistance and research of the Venezuelans in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask qu

Marianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights policy and advocacy, Marianna has worked, among others, with the Brazilian National Truth Commission, the United Nations Development Program, the International Rescue Committee, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She has taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, The New School, and CUNY. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy and in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and

Vera Paiva is a Full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo, where she has taught since 1987. She is dedicated to psychosocial approaches to inequality and sexuality and to the innovation of health practices (prevention and care) based on human rights, with an emphasis on STIs/AIDS and covid-19. She has extensive collaboration with AIDS Programs (national, state and municipal) and Covid-19 response networks. She is a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo. She is the eldest daughter of Rubens Paiva, a Brazilian engineer and politician tortured and murdered by Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. Her family's life is the subject of feature film I'm Still Here, a current box office hit in Brazil, nominated twice to the 2025 Golden Globe Awards and shortlisted in the 2025 Academy Awards International Film category.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to und

Camila Rocha is the Scientific Director of CCI/Cebrap. A PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, she won the USP Thesis Award and the best doctoral thesis award from the Brazilian Political Science Association. A finalist for the 64th Jabuti Prize with the book Less Marx, More Mises: Liberalism and the New Right in Brazil, she also serves as Global Advisor for Our Common Home (Geneva), is a member of the board of the Instituto Democracia em Xeque (Democracy in Check Institute – São Paulo), and a columnist for the daily newspaper Folha de São Paulo.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfilte

CartaCapital e o ‪WashingtonBrazilOffice‬ (WBO) transmitem uma edição especial do podcast Brazil Unfiltered para debater o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas e como a vitória de Donald Trump contra Kamala Harris poderá impactar o futuro das relações entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos.O encontro conta com a participação de:James Naylor Green, presidente do Conselho Diretivo do WBOAndré Pagliarini, professor de História e Estudos Internacionais na Louisiana State UniversityVânia Penha-Lopes, professora de Sociologia no Bloomfield CollegeThais Reis Oliveira, editora executiva de CartaCapitalSaiba mais sobre o Washington Brazil Officehttps://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activitiesAssine e apoie CartaCapitalhttps://bit.ly/CartaYoutube

Erika Robb Larkins is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in American Ethnologist, City and Society, and the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, and in public outlets including El País and O Estado de São Paulo. In addition to all of her activities, Erika is the President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.Brazil is goi

Tainah Santos Pereira is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She was a Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Program on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2022 at Stanford University. She is interested in the topics of financing for development, reform of the international financial and monetary systems, multilateral development banks and the BRICS process. She is currently political coordinator for Mulheres Negras Decidem (Black Women Decide), a social movement dedicated to promoting Black women participation in institutional politics.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does

Isabel Figueiredo is an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 years, supporting community initiatives that generate socio-environmental benefits.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by t

Andre Pagliarini is an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University, a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. He is a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office, where he co-edits the weekly newsletter, as well as a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A 2022-23 Fulbright scholar, he is currently working on three book manuscripts on nationalism in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and mass politics across post-independence Latin America. Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, an

Debora Diniz is a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and research for evidence-based advocacy, policy change, and strategic litigation on health and rights. Diniz served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Fòs Feminista (2018-2023), an international alliance for reproductive justice comprising over 220 organizations in more than 44 countries.  Her 2016 book, "Zika: From Brazilian Backlands to Global Threat," was awarded the Jabuti Prize Book and has since been translated into English and Japanese. As a video creator, her films have received over 80 awards and have been exhibited at festivals, prisons, universities, schools, hospitals, laboratories, courts, and churches in over 35 countries. She was nominated as one of Foreign Policy Magazine's "100 Global Thinkers." And In

A member of the Democratic Party, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove represents California’s vibrant, diverse 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. Congresswoman Kamlager-Dove is also a fierce advocate for the African diaspora both in California’s 37th District and around the world. She leveraged her role on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa to help establish the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s Global African Diaspora Initiative (GADI) and secure its special consultative status within the United Nations Economic & Social Council. Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that

Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Juliana has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations & Development from the American University in Washington. With over twelve years of experience, Juliana has worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), and has collaborated with the Global Alliance for the Green New Deal in Paris, and various NGOs in Washington, D.C. Currently, she coordinates the Socio-Environmental Program at the WBO, and the Liaison & Outreach Strategy for the Parliamentary Observatory on Clima

Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva and a consultant in youth and adult education and development for the Ministries of Education of Guine Bissau and Nicarágua. He is also a former professor of Philosophy of Popular Education at IESAE – Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (1983-1992), as well as a professor and lecturer at universities in Brazil and abroad. Arruda is a member and collaborator of several organizations linked to human rights and environmental issues. He is the author and co-author of more than 10 books and hundreds of articules, published in Bra

Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is the author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year, and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a "best book" of the year. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has also worked on, and appeared in, numerous documentary films, including the Oscar-winning "Panama Dec

Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international media outlets to discuss issues associated with police and crime in Brazil, including Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, and the Wall Street Journal, to mention but a few. He was a visiting scholar at Boston College, Gothenburg University, and Paris Dauphine University.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History

In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarini is also assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. *He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences* in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. In the program, Green looks back at the WBO's activities and Brazil's political scenario in 2023. Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Bra

Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and Mercosur. Nationally, Raísa has extensive experience with the development of public policies that internalize human rights standards on topics such as migration, democracy and freedom of expression.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.