Brazil Unfiltered Washington Brazil Office

Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Juliana specialized in International Political Economy and Governance at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague and the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Juliana has a Bachelor's degree in International Relations & Development from the American University in Washington. With over twelve years of experience, Juliana has worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), and has collaborated with the Global Alliance for the Green New Deal in Paris, and various NGOs in Washington, D.C. Currently, she coordinates the Socio-Environmental Program at the WBO, and the Liaison & Outreach Strategy for the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). 

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Marcos Arruda is an economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute – Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, Rio de Janeiro since 1986 and an associate of the Transnational Institute, in Amsterdam, since 1975. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE – Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis, Rio de Janeiro, a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva and a consultant in youth and adult education and development for the Ministries of Education of Guine Bissau and Nicarágua. He is also a former professor of Philosophy of Popular Education at IESAE – Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro (1983-1992), as well as a professor and lecturer at universities in Brazil and abroad. Arruda is a member and collaborator of several organizations linked to human rights and environmental issues. He is the author and co-author of more than 10 books and hundreds of articules, published in Brazil and abroad, including A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Peter Kornbluh is a Senior Analyst who was has worked at the National Security Archive since April 1986. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. From 1990-1999, he taught at Columbia University as an adjunct assistant professor of international and public affairs. He is the author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana (UNC Press, 2014), a Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year, and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, which the Los Angeles Times selected as a "best book" of the year. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He has also worked on, and appeared in, numerous documentary films, including the Oscar-winning "Panama Deception," the History Channel's "Bay of Pigs Declassified," "The Trials of Henry Kissinger," and most recently the Netflix documentary, “Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, Conspiracy."

https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Rafael Alcadipani is full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He does research on police and crime in Brazil. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international media outlets to discuss issues associated with police and crime in Brazil, including Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, and the Wall Street Journal, to mention but a few. He was a visiting scholar at Boston College, Gothenburg University, and Paris Dauphine University.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarini is also assistant professor of history and fellow in the Wilson Center for Leadership in the Public Interest at Hampden-Sydney College in central Virginia. *He has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences* in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. In the program, Green looks back at the WBO's activities and Brazil's political scenario in 2023.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities

Raísa Cetra is co-executive director at Article 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and Mercosur. Nationally, Raísa has extensive experience with the development of public policies that internalize human rights standards on topics such as migration, democracy and freedom of expression.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

razil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activities