Carla Cerqueira is graduated in Social Communication from the University of Minho (Portugal), having worked some time as a journalist. She did a specialization in Communication Sciences - Information and Journalism, from the same institution, and since 2007 she is dedicated to research in the field of feminist media studies. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences - specialization in Communication Psychology from the University of Minho (2012), funded by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. During six years she was a Postdoctoral researcher in Communication Sciences at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), University of Minho, Portugal; at the Department of Media, Communication and Culture, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; and at the Department of Social Sciences, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands and she was an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University of Porto, Porto. From 2019 to August 2020 was is a full-time researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (University of Minho). Currently she is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University, integrated researcher at CICANT - The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies and collaborator researcher at CECS - Communication and Society Research Centre. She is the director of the PhD in Communication and Activisms, Lusofona University. She integrates diverse national and international projects. Currentley she is the principal investigator of the project "FEMGlocal - Glocal feminist movements: interactions and contradictions (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021) and the project "Network Voices: Women's participation in development processes" (COFAC/ILIND/CICANT/1/2021). She is also a team member of the funded projects YouNDigital - Youth, News and Digital Citizenship (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021); MigraMediaActs - Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures (PTDC/COM-CSS/3121/2021) and SPECULUM - Filming and looking at oneself in the mirror: the use of self-writing by Portuguese-speaking documentary filmmakers (EXPL/ART-CRT/0231/2021). She integrates "Making Young Researchers' Voices Heard for Gender Equality" (CA20137) and "LGBTI+ Social and Economic (in)equalities¿ (CA19103). Author of several books, book chapters and articles in national and international scientific journals, her research interests include gender, feminisms, intersectionality, feminist and human rights NGOs and media studies. Simultaneously, she participated in diverse international and national conferences (some as invited speaker) and integrated diverse scientific committees and events organization. She is part of the team of trainers and experts of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. She is also part of the group of experts from EIGE - European Institute for Gender Equality. She was vice-chair of the Gender and Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and Gender and Communication YECREA representative. Currently she is part of the Ethics Committee of ECREA. She has participated as a researcher and consultant in several academic and social funded projects in the area of Gender Equality and Media. Since 2012 she was also invited to join the Opinion Board of RTP (Radio and Television of Portugal is the public service broadcasting organization of Portugal) as a representative of NGOs that are part of the Advisory Board of CIG - Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. She is the Research & Policy Committee chair of GAMAG - Global Alliance on Media and Gender. She maintains an active involvement with diverse Portuguese non-governmental organizations that work with gender, feminisms and human rights. She integrates the board of APEM - Portuguese Association for Women's Studies and Civitas Braga.