About

Born in Rio and a New Yorker for two decades, I can’t complain about my home towns.

I started working quite young as a toddler fashion model, a job of which I have no recollection but trust my elders that it happened. In elementary school I was the proud editor of the 549, a handwritten weekly covering all that happened at the, well … building #549 where we lived. At 10, a short story printed on an actual magazine (a school publication, of course) is probably one of the proudest moments I can remember. There is nothing quite like seeing your name in print, next to your story. Not that I didn’t enjoy my actual adult careers. Travelling theater was an amazing crash-course in all things a human can do. When you work in a small theater company you have to do a little of everything: accounting, public speaking, operating light and sound, fundraising and, of course, storytelling. The transition to journalism was swift. I loved being an anchor for Bloomberg Brazil, a Nasdaq reporter, news producer and later Latin America correspondent for Bloomberg TV. Hard core journalism is addictive and exciting and at Bloomberg I was able to exercise news judgement, dealing with breaking news, financial markets and economics. I also had a blast developing programming for Bloomberg Brazil TV, designing shows from scratch and working with producers, talent and engineers to bring things to life. (Let’s add Project Management to the skills Theater taught me).  As a video producer and reporter for a large corporation, I had the privilege to interview people only because they were passionate about their work and communities,  “regular” people we seldom hear from but that illuminate what life actually is all about. I was managing editor at LatinFinance looking at the nuts and bolts that move Latin American economies, and had a fantastic five years as managing editor at Americas Quarterly, where policy, economy and culture come together. As co-founder of the interview channel moozNEWS on YouTube, I produce and moderate Portuguese language interviews abut current affairs and am now splitting my time between freelance assignments, consulting, and writing fiction for kids and adults.