Marcela Uchôa is a jurist and doctor in philosophy; She works in the areas of Humanities with an emphasis on political philosophy, human rights, republicanism, feminist studies and critical theory. She has a PhD in Political Philosophy from the University of Coimbra-Portugal. She is a full member of the Institute of Philosophical Studies at the University of Coimbra (IEF) where her research focuses on the topics of Care, Politics and Ethics. She has a master's degree in Philosophy from the Federal University of Ceará, where she received a CAPES scholarship. She has a special interest in the authors Hannah Arendt, Rosa Luxemburg and Frantz Fanon. She has published more than a dozen articles in indexed national and international journals, including Boyhood Studies (Berghahn Journals), the Journal for the study of Radicalism (Michigan State University), Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais and Historiae. She has collaborated as a scientific peer reviewer with 4 journals. She has co-edited 2 books on the topic of care and published 5 book chapters. She has organized several colloquia, debates and seminars with distinguished academic guests, and has presented her work at dozens of national and international conferences in Portugal, Spain, Greece, Germany, France and Brazil. Marcela lectures the subject Political Philosophy of Latin America as a guest professor in the Postgraduate Program in Philosophy at the State University of Ceará, Brazil, and is a collaborating researcher at the Observatory on Violence at the same university. She participated as a researcher in the project: KINDER - Tackling gender stereotypes, at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She was a professor of Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy and Human Rights at Faculdades Cearenses (FAC); She was a professor of Philosophy of Education and Theory of Knowledge at Faculdade Vale do Jaguaribe (FVJ). She supervised several undergraduate and post-doctoral studies, and was the main examiner on a doctoral jury. She is a member of the prominent think-tank Fórum Demos and the Lusophone Observatory of Human Rights (Observatório Lusófono de Direitos Humanos). Furthermore, she regularly contributes opinion articles to O Público newspaper.