Carolina is a Brazilian immigrant, writer, artist, and organizational leader based in Portland, Oregon. Growing up across languages and geographies continues to animate her work. She came of age in Brazil’s punk movement as artist and organizer and has spent nearly three decades moving between her art and building and leading organizations. As a writer she is represented by Eva Oakes and Noelle Falcis Math of the Transatlantic Agency.
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Carolina é escritora, artista multimídia e fundadora de projetos sociais, radicada em Portland, Oregon, nos Estados Unidos. Seu trabalho transita entre a não ficção literária, o cinema e outros formatos, com raízes na cena punk brasileira. É representada pelas agentes literárias Eva Oakes e Noelle Falcis Math, da Transatlantic Agency.
Recent Essays
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“Floating Down, Unafraid” - The Offing
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“Spot it Got it: Vying for Legitimacy in my Americas” - The Acentos Review
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“My Atoms Were There, My Atoms Are Here” - Cagibi Journal
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“On Moving On - Women’s Autobiographical Writing as an Act of Letting Go” - The Artisanal Writer
Selected Work & Awards
Artist residencies include Hypatia-in-the-Woods (2020/23) and Caldera (2018/19). Honors and grants include the Women in Film Emerging Latina Filmmaker Award and an Oregon Regional Arts & Culture Council Project Grant.
Projects include the documentary Viva Viva, a portrait of São Paulo punks, and I See You, a layered story in sound of a gentrifying Portland block. Her work has screened and aired at Cinemateca Brasileira (São Paulo), the Chicago International Film Festival, In-Edit Brasil, CBGB Festival, the Curitiba International Film Festival, public radio, and many others. Carolina has also worked as an art director at MTV Brasil, and as an art educator at Walker’s Point Center for the Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo.
She co-founded and served as Executive Director of CultureSeed (2018–2025), a youth-serving nonprofit providing long-term outdoor immersion and mental health programs. She recently served as the Interim Director for Greater Good Northwest, and currently serves as Interim Development Director for both Feed The Mass and Big River Community Land Trust. Her prior nonprofit leadership and communications work includes roles with a focus on food security, youth, and the arts.
