PhD in Public Administration and Government from the School of Business Administration of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV-EAESP) with a doctoral internship at the Centre of Latin American Studies (CLAS) at the University of Cambridge. Master in Public Administration from the same university and a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo. She is the executive director of the Brazilian Public Security Forum and coordinates the preparation of the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook and the Atlas of Violence.