Coordination

Mirka Slowik de Martinez holds a Licenciate in Literature from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) in La Paz, Bolivia, and Master of Arts degree in Romance Philology from FU Berlin. She has worked from 2010 until 2016 as a German Teacher at Goethe-Institut La Paz, from 2017 until 2022 at Goethe-Institut Berlin, and as a teacher trainer from 2013 until 2016 at Goethe-Institut La Paz and Goethe-Institut São Paulo. In 2022 she received a scholarship as a literary translator from the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB). She is a passionate in language learning and world literatures. She joined the Mecila coordination team as Administrative Assistant in December 2022.

mirka.slowik@fu-berlin.de
Freie Universität Berlin
ZI Lateinamerika-Institut
Projekthaus
Boltzmannstr. 1
Raum 006 | 14195 Berlin, Germany

Carolina Santarossa holds a Master’s degree in Latin American Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication (Journalism) from the University of São Paulo. At the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) in Berlin, she coordinates Mecila’s activities related to the subproject Medialities of Conviviality. Her professional trajectory includes experience in the field of international cooperation and science communication at institutions such as the DFG, the Humboldt Forum and the DWIH-SP.

Santarossa@iai.spk-berlin.de 
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Potsdamer Straße 37
10785 Berlin, Germany

Lucas da Cunha is a Social Sciences student pursuing a bachelor’s degree at USP. In 2023, he was a visiting student at the Université d’Ottawa in Canada for one semester. He worked as a research assistant in the “Religions in the Contemporary World” research nucleus at CEBRAP. In June 2024, he joined the Mecila team in São Paulo as an intern.

lucas.cunha@fu-berlin.de
Centro de Difusão Internacional – USP
Av. Prof. Lúcio Martins Rodrigues, 310
Butantã, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

Vitória Zandonadi is an undergraduate student in Social Sciences at USP. In the first semester of 2023, she had the opportunity to participate in an academic mobility exchange program at Sciences Po, on the Reims campus in France. Currently, Vitória is developing a research project in Urban Anthropology. Since June 2024, she has been part of the Mecila team as an intern.

+55 11 55740399 | 118
vitoria.zandonadi@fu-berlin.de
Rua Morgado de Mateus, 615
04015-051 São Paulo, Brazil