I am a PhD student at Duke University School of Nursing. My research interest lies in improving care for Latinx immigrant families living through the loss of a child to cancer, focusing on resiliency. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, I have wielded my lived experiences to guide my academic and clinical pursuits over the last decade. I graduated Suma Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts Boston with a psychology degree, where I worked as a research assistant in the Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development, was in the first cohort of the Health Equity Scholars Program, and worked on the Brazilian transnational project. Having always wanted to pursue a career in nursing, I then attended Johns Hopkins University for my BSN and MSN-NP where, as a research honors student and Fuld Fellow, I completed a capstone project analyzing racial difference in religious coping and depressive symptoms by extrapolating data from an end-of-life decision-making trial. I then immersed myself in clinical practice as a Nurse Practitioner where I developed my expertise in hematology oncology and captured the practice challenges that remained in providing equitable care for immigrant populations and ignited my desire to return to academia for a doctoral degree. 

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