Biography

Priscila Dias holds a degree in Psychology and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (Brazil). She earned her Master's in Social Intervention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Postcolonial Studies at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Her work focuses on Social Psychology, utilizing autoethnography as an analytical methodology for her research. With twelve years of experience in social intervention, she has been dedicated to combating social inequalities and exclusions faced by women in vulnerable situations. Priscila specializes in developing Social Projects through art-based interventions aimed at addressing community strategies to challenge the stigma and prejudices experienced by marginalized women. Her work in Brazil involves various Social Projects targeting domestic workers, morbidly obese individuals, HIV-positive women, sex workers, girls in shelter situations, women in psychiatric hospitals, drug-dependent individuals, rural women, elderly women, and female inmates in correctional facilities, among others. In Europe, she has developed programs for women experiencing homelessness in Dublin (Ireland), worked with refugee women in Dunkirk (France), and supported drug-dependent women in Coimbra (Portugal). She has also been involved in Social Projects with women in Africa (Morocco and Kenya) and Asia (India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Thailand). Priscila is the founder of the social enterprise 'Íntimo Colorido' dedicated to the social inclusion of women in vulnerable situations.