Beatriz Lacerda is from Porto. She has a degree in Cinema (UBI, 2017) and Sociology (FLUP, 2019) and a master's degree in Sociology from the same institution (2022). She worked as a mediator and researcher in the construction of the collaborative exhibition "Travessia" (2021) with Susan Meiselas, Lydia Matthews and Lígia Ferro on the invisibilization of African and Afro-descendant communities in Porto, with an ethnographic approach and using participatory and visual methodologies. From this project, she completed her master's degree in Sociology at FLUP with the dissertation "For the decolonization of the city: Networks and urban experiences of African and Afro-descendant communities in Porto" (2022), under the guidance of Lígia Ferro. She has worked on projects that unite Cinema and Sociology - in the fields of intervention through the arts, non-formal education methodologies, programming for human rights and mediation, with emphasis on the projects "Cinema Insuflável", "Rising Cinema" and "O Clube de Cinema de Campanhã", funded by EEA Grants and managed by Gulbenkian's Active Citizens program. Since 2023, she has been a PhD student in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and, as a PhD student, she is part of the project "PERICREATIVITY: Peripheral Creativities: youth, art and public policies in segregated territories" (2022.08993. PTDC), coordinated by Otávio Raposo (ISCTE) and Lígia Ferro (IS-UP), where she will have the opportunity to deepen her research in her areas of interest, such as territory and youth, migration and anti-racism, ethnography and visual methodologies and co-participation processes.