Patrícia Carlos Magno is a Public Defender of the State of Rio de Janeiro since 2001, currently, she is member of the Penitentiary System group. She is a researcher attached to the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (LADIH/UFRJ) and the Critical Theory of Human Rights Research Group (CNPq). She is a founding member of the Fórum Justiça and ColetivA Mulheres Defensoras Públicas. Master in Law at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, and is a Ph.D. in Human Rights at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro with a doctoral internship at the Center for Social Studies at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. Was awarded Honorable Mention in the XIV CONADEP – National Congress of Public Defenders- thesis contest (2019), with the thesis “In search of the emancipatory institutional potential of the Public Defender: reflections and propositions on the Challenge of building institutional markers for increasing the three-dimensionality of access to justice”, which was adapted to an article for this collective work.
