Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho Carinhanha is a mediator, artist, lawyer, and doctoral student in Law at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and in Social and Legal Sciences in the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She is also a researcher with the Research Group in Criminology (GPCRIM-UEFS/UNEB), the Research Group on Sexuality, Law and Democracy (SDD-UFF), and the research group Anastácia Bantu (UFF). She holds a Master of Criminology from the Faculty of Law and Criminology at the Université Catholique de Louvain (2014). She has graduated in Law from the Universidade do Estado da Bahia (2011) and in Arts, with an emphasis on Politics and Management of Culture, from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (2011). She is a member of Black Initiative for a New Drug Policy (INNPD).
