Sociologist with a focus on discussions about Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Thought, Black and Queer Feminism, and Rhetoric and Discourse. She works with research-led teaching and develops studies promoting the dialogue between Global South and the Global North epistemologies. Her experience is rooted in the political formation at the Núcleo de Consciência Negra na USP (1999) followed by the engagement in research and education in the areas of race, black Diaspora, coloniality and nation formation, feminism and womanism, dissident identities, performances and embodiment. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Leeds (2020), a Master's degree in Sociological Research from the University of Barcelona (2013), and a Bachelour degree in Sociology and Politics from the Foundation School of Sociology and Politics in São Paulo (FESPSP) (2006).

Leeds Beckett University – 2017 – 2019. Visiting scholar supervised by Professor Shirley Anne Tate. Associated with the Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality (CRED). 

Justus Liebig University Giessen – October/2016 until January/2017, visiting PhD-scholar and temporary member of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Supervised by Dr Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez. Associated with the Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, and Cultural Transformations (QDFCT).

HERSTORIES: What happened to Marielle Franco? Lecture by Katucha Bento. Available on the ResearchNetwork QDFCT youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WodbIMGo5Ck

“Racismo estrutural e a classe trabalhadora” - Available on the Federação Única dos Petroleiros youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t78P_wsGqkc

Girl Up x BFS Intersectionality 101 panel discussion 2021 - Available on Girl Up Edinburgh youtube channe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NG62b3plyI

Invisível: Muito Além do Petróleo - Mulheres Pretas: Entre as lutas e o apagamento  Available on Federação Única dos Petroleiros youtube channel: https://youtu.be/tpzfli64p2c

Black, Other: Underappreciated Narratives on Race & Science - Available on Maria Arruda youtube channe: https://youtu.be/pkS8H8Xk3jg

Afronauts S6E2: Environmental Justice Now!! - Available one Afronauts Collective youtube channel: https://youtu.be/aEE_d2GGpA4

Critical Race Studies, Decolonial Thought, Black and Queer Feminism, and Rhetoric and Discourse

• Associate Director of Race.ED Network
  
  
• ABPN – Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros (Brazilian Association of Black Researchers).
  
  
• CRED – Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality. Leeds Beckett University.
  
  
• QDFCT – Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, and Cultural Transformations, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen, Germany. 
  
  
• CERS – Center for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds.
  
  
• Black Feminist Society at the Leeds Student Union – University of Leeds.
  
  
• APEC – Association of Brazilian Researchers and Students in Catalonia. President during the administration of 2012-13. Secretary during the administration of 2013-2014. Barcelona.
  
  

• Researching Relationships across generations and through time, Professor Bren Neale, University of Leeds, 09/06/2015 – 8.0 hours
• AQUALM: Exploring Qualitative Longitudinal Research - Dr Sarah Irwin; Dr Nick Emmel; Ruth Patrick, University of Leeds, 08/06/2015 – 8.0 hours.
• Understanding the impact of research perspectives: The importance of metatheory, research methodology and reflexing in crafting qualitative research - Prof. Ann Cunliffe, White Rose Institute (University of Leeds), 20/04/2015 – 8.0 hours
• Reclaiming Modernity: Beyond Markets, Beyond Machines – Bauman Institute (University of Leeds), 28/03/2015 – 8.0 hours
• Preparing for Your Transfer, University of Leeds,   27/02/2015 – 3.0 hours
• How to read a research article (LEAP), University of Leeds,  20/01/2015 – 3.0 hours
• SPSS Beginners (qualitative/ quantitative data), University of Leeds, 11/12/2014 – 3.0 hours
• 5th Postgraduate Researcher Conference, University of Leeds, 04/12/2014 – 7.25 hours
• Working Effectively with your Supervisor, University of Leeds, 27/11/2014 – 3.0 hours
• LEAP Measure and improve research impact, University of Leeds,  22/10/2014 – 1.5 hours 
• ESSL Starting Your Research Degree, University of Leeds, 21/10/2014 - 3.5 hours
• Technological Solutions Applied to Sociology - lecture about programmes and quantitative methodologies in social sciences, Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo. Lecturer Rogerio Rocha. May 2005 – 4 hours
• Social Science Techniques - course on modern techniques and methodology in social sciences, Fundação Escola de Sociologia e Política de São Paulo. February-May 2005 – 32 hours.
• Gender in Research as a Mark of Excellence - training about gender research. European Commission under the FP7 Capacities programme. Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), March 2012.

MBA SUPERVISIONS

1. Jackeline Leite da Silva. 2014. Monograph: “e-Social: Obrigações fiscais previdenciárias e trabalhistas digitais”. Postgraduate Course: Aperfeiçoamento/Especialização em Pós Graduação em Recrutamento e Seleção. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.
2. Mayara Loureiro. 2014. Monograph: “A influência da Liderança no Trabalho em Equipe” Postgraduate Course: Recrutamento e Seleção. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.
3. Andréa dos Santos. 2014. Monograph: “Rotatividade de Operadores de Telemarketing em Call Centers”.  Postgraduate Course: Recrutamento e Seleção. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.
4. Patrícia Duarte Faravula. 2014. Monograph: “Capacitação Profissional nas Empresas”. Postgraduate Course: Recrutamento e Seleção. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.
5. Ariadne Ignácio da Silva Matta Oliveira. 2014. Monograph: “A perspectiva de Pessoas com Deficiencia no mercado de trabalho”. Postgraduate Course: MBA in Sistema de Gestão Integrada. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.
6. José Neuvaldo Gomes da Silva. 2014. Monograph: “Pajelança em Belo Monte”. Postgraduate Course: MBA in Sistema de Gestão Integrada. University of Guarulhos, Brazil.

SUPERVISIONS

I currently supervise students in the Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programmes. Research areas involve: Critical Race Theory, Performativity, Black Feminism, LGBTQI+ (specially QTPoC) Studies, Gender Studies, Whiteness Studies, Rhetoric and Discourse Analysis.

CONTINUIUNG PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)

Teaching 

• Teaching for Small Groups, University of Leeds, 01/10/2014. 
• The importance of promoting autonomy in the classroom. Roberto Marinho Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) January 2009 – 40.0 hours.
• Assessing students – how to provide feedback? – Alfabetização Solidária, Sao Paulo (Brazil), November 2008 – 12.0 hours.
• Paulo Freire Theory transforming practices in the classroom – Alfabetização Solidária, São Paulo (Brazil), August 2008 – 40.0 hours.
• Teaching Adults: practices of literacy and the liberation theory – Alfabetização Solidária, São Paulo (Brazil), September-November 2008 – 120.0 hours.
• Children’s Literature for Adults – teaching training using art, images and reading practices by Rebeca Gelse Rodrigues, SISEB - Sistemas de Bibliotecas Públicas do Estado de SP (Brazil) – February-March 2001 – 120.0 hours.
• Pedagogical Tools in Children’s Education – Saint Thomas International School, São Paulo, (Brazil), August 2000 – 8 hours.
• Teaching Music to Young People: Theory and Practices of piano lessons – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart School, Ibiuna (Brazil), January 1999 – 120.0 hours.

Invited Lectures and Roundtables

• A formação das instituições e a cidadania brasileira (The formation of Brazilian institutions and citizenship). Federal University of the Rio de Janeiro State (UniRio). Public Lecture organised by Professor João Paulo Martins, at the School of Political Science. 14th May 2020.
• Building the Anti-Racist Classroom (BARC). Participation in the ‘Long Table Discussion”. Hosted by Professor Shirley Anne Tate at Leeds Beckett University. 15-16th June 2019.
• Race, Mixed-ness (Mestiçagem) and Racial Democracy in Brazil - Lecture delivered at the Birmingham City University in the Black Studies Programme for the module “Black Intellectual Thought”, organised by Kadian Pow. 11th March 2019.
• "HERstories: What happened to Marielle Franco?". Lecture for the Research Network in Queer Studies, Decolonial Feminisms, and Cultural Transformations (QDFCT), University of Gießen, Germany. 5th December 2018. 
• Decolonising Geography: Theories, Methods, Praxis. Guest Lecturer on the topic: Diasporas and Intersectionality, convened by Alison Browne. The University of Manchester. 22nd November 2018.
• Samba Building Notions of Unity and National Identity. Leeds Samba, UK. 31st July 2018. 
• Challenging Eurocentrism and coloniality of power through reflexivity. (web participation) Symposium: Dismantling structural whiteness: decolonising political ecologies. University of Lancaster 21st July 2018. Organised by Katharine Howell, Luciana Mendes Barbosa and Craig Jones.
• Brazil Forum. Oxford University and London School of Economics, UK, 5th – 7th May 2018. Mediator in the Roundtable “130 Years of Aurea Law: Was there an Abolition?” with Talíria Petrone e Prof. Silvio de Almeida.
• What is AfroSamba? – Importance and Moves of Afro Brazilian music (workshop). Oya Batucada, Birmingham, UK. June 2016.
• “Les claus de les protestes al Brasil” (The keys aspects of protests in Brazil). Col•legi de Periodistes de Catalunya, l’Associació dels investigadors i estudiants brasilers a Catalunya (APEC) i l’Agència de Comunicació Intercultural (Itacat). Fabrício Carrijo, Maria Badet Souza, Flávio Carvalho, Katucha Bento, Maria Carvalho Dantas. Barcelona, 26 June 2013.
• “Pedagogy of the Oppressed inspired in Paulo Freire”. Lecture. Col.letiu Gai de Barcelona, July 2012.
• "Queer Theory and Studies of Whiteness in Sociological Research”. The University of Barcelona – a group of three lectures on the module "Researching Sociology". April 2013.
• Workshop “Embodying Awareness of Self through Samba”. Col.letiu Gai de Barcelona, September 2012.
• Pedagogy Meeting at the University of Gurupi (Tocantins, Brazil), August 2008. Lecture: “Multiculturalism and inter-transculturality: The culture and the teaching-learning process in adult education and literacy”.
• Event about the Brazilian Slavery Abolition of 13th May 1888, Casa das Rosas, Sao Paulo (Brazil). May 2007. Organised by the Brazilian Black Movement. Roundtable: Inclusion, citizenship, social and racial apartheid. Paper: “Are Black people accessing Education?”.