Experience

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  Guayaki Sustainable Rainforest Products, Inc.

  • United States
  • Food and Beverage Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Diretor Executivo Brasil

    • Mar 2021 - Present

  • Coordenador de Etnobotânica

    • Feb 2019 - Feb 2021

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  Associação Indígena Laklãnõ

  • Terra Indígena Ibirama-Laklãnõ

  • Project Coordinator

    • Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
    • Terra Indígena Ibirama-Laklãnõ

    Coordinator of eco-cultural restoration project at the Ibirama-Laklãnõ Indigenous Territory. Funding from the Rufford Foundation Small Grants - Restoring Kute Bág - indigenous interventions for biocultural conservation in southern Mata Atlântica, Brazil.

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  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

  • Brazil
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Facilitator - Indigenous Actions and Knowledge in Schools

    • Jun 2018 - 2020

    Facilitator in multidisciplinary teams in the national programme for the promotion of indigenous knowledge and actions in local schools within the indigenous territories of the Laklãnõ-Xokleng, Kaingáng and Guarani peoples in Santa Catarina.

  • PhD in Ecology

    • Aug 2013 - Aug 2018

  • Teacher Assistant

    • Feb 2015 - Jul 2018

    Ethnobiology and Conservation Biology courses offered to Biology undergraduate students.

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  A Rocha

  • Brasil

  • Scientific Council

    • 2012 - 2018
    • Brasil

    Development and planning of socioenvironmental projects towards biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, environmental education and local development.

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  Editora Edebê Brasil

  • Content collaborator / Reviewer

    • Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

    Series of Biology books for High School education. Responsible for the Teachers' Manual and chapters on Ecology, Botany and the Environment.

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  The Brazilian Ecosystem Summer School, Antioch University

  • Morretes, PR, Brasil

  • Facilitador e organizador de curso

    • Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
    • Morretes, PR, Brasil

    Curso: "Ethnobotany, Traditional Communities and Conservation in Mata Atlântica".

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  Associação Ka’apor ta hury Rio Gurupi

  • Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, Maranhão

  • Consultant / Instructor

    • Oct 2014 - 2015
    • Terra Indígena Alto Turiaçu, Maranhão

    Consultant and workshop organizer for participatory mapping and planning of forest monitoring and surveillance for the Ka'apor Indigenous People at Alto Turiaçú Indigenous Territory. This project was continued by Greenpeace in following years.

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  University of Victoria

  • Victoria, BC, Canadá

  • Teaching Assistant

    • 2010 - 2012
    • Victoria, BC, Canadá

    School of Environmental Studies: Introduction to Ethnoecology (ES321), Ethnobotany (ES421), Advanced Topics in Ethnoecology: Ethnoecology of Place (ES481).

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  Universidade Federal do Paraná

  • Brazil
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Researcher

    • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

    Oikos Ecology Lab. Ethnobotany study as basis for the elaboration of forest reservation management plan, in partnership with EMBRAPA Forests.

  • Intern

    • Aug 2005 - Dec 2007

    Oikos Ecology Laboratory. Ecology and ethnobotany projects, field work, training, study group organization, and other activities promoted by the lab. Collaboration in projects (1) Ornamental plants of Paraná: cultivation, extraction and market, (2) Restoration of gallery forests within the Araucaria Rainforests of Paraná, from useful species and non-timber forest products, and (3) Ethnobotany study as basis for the elaboration of forest reserve management plan.

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  Embrapa

  • Brazil
  • Farming
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Invited researcher

    • Jan 2008 - Dec 2008

    Multidisciplinary project (responsible for ethnobotany and socioeconomic studies) for the elaboration of management plan of the EMBRAPA/EPAGRI Forest Reservation (Model Forest).

  • Intern

    • Jan 2007 - Dec 2007

    Environmental Monitoring Lab - EMBRAPA Florestas. Development of innovative models for protected areas management: the case of Embrapa/Epagri Forest Reserve in Caçador, SC - Action IV: Elaboration of socioeconomic and ethnobotanical report of the Embrapa/Epagri Forest Reserve surroundings, as a basis for the elaboration of management plan.

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  Associação Franciscana de Ensino Senhor Bom Jesus

  • Colégio Bom Jesus da Aldeia, Campo Largo, PR, Brasil

  • Environmental Education Teacher

    • 2008 - 2008
    • Colégio Bom Jesus da Aldeia, Campo Largo, PR, Brasil

    Environmental Education. Theoretical and field classes, development of year curriculum for EE, and training for teachers of correlate areas.