Camila Simonin is an artist-researcher and a PhD student at the department of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from NYU and an MA in Dance Studies from UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). Even though her academic work focuses on Brazil, her home country, she is interested in working transnationally in contexts in which the far-right has arisen as a reactionary force to left-wing governments or socio-political organizations since 2013. She has participated in conferences in and outside of the United States and has published papers in international journals, such as IDyM (Investigaciones en Danza y Movimiento) in Buenos Aires. In her artistic pieces, she mainly works as a theater director and performance artist. Camila has been awarded in theater festivals in Brazil, having shown most of her work in Rio and New York.