Ana Pratricia Barbosa holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from the Lutheran University of Brazil (2007) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Faculty of Letters, University of Porto (FLUP), the Institute of Sociology, University of Porto (IS-UP), and the Department of Sociology at FLUP, under the guidance of Professor Dr. Paula Maria Guerra Tavares. She earned her Ph.D. in Cultural Diversity and Social Inclusion from Feevale University (2017 - CAPES scholarship), co-supervised by Professor Dr. Ana Luíza Carvalho da Rocha and Professor Dr. Michel Maffesoli at René Descartes University Sorbonne Paris V, France. She also holds a Master's degree in Cultural Diversity and Social Inclusion from Feevale University (2013), supervised by Professor Dr. Ana Luíza Carvalho da Rocha. She is a specialist in Family and Community Intervention in the context of Social Policies (ULBRA - 2009) and in Individual, Family, and Couples Therapy (Instituto das Famílias de Porto Alegre - INFAPA - 2012). She has taught courses in Social Work, Social Sciences, Public Management, Social Responsibility and Sustainability, and Human Rights in Ethnic-Racial Relations, Gender, and Diversity at the Lutheran University of Brazil - ULBRA. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for Transdisciplinary Research (CITCEM) Culture, Space, and Memory, Faculty of Letters, University of Porto/Portugal, and an associate researcher at the Image and Visual Effects Bank, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (BIEV/UFRGS). She is a member of the Front for Combating Juvenile Mortality in Porto Alegre and the RMPMA - Network for Research on Metropolitanization, hybrid (more-than-human) landscapes, and environmental memories. As a researcher, she conducts studies on youth, urban space production, memory, territoriality, work, conflict, sociability, social trajectories, violence, public policies and social management, human rights, inequality, and social vulnerabilities, environment, and socio-environmental sustainability.