Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa is a Psychologist from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (1988), a Ph.D. in International / Intercultural Education at the University of Southern California (1995) where she defended a thesis on Brazilian female empowerment through reproductive health education. She did a post-doctorate in Demography at the Università Degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (2004) developing research on the social integration and empowerment of Brazilian migrants in Italy.  She was a professor at the Faculty of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Maracanã) and the Faculty of Education of Baixada Fluminense (Duque de Caxias). She was also a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro at the Faculty of Education and the Center for Educational Technology for Health. At the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, she served first as a visiting researcher working with educational projects in women’s health, scientific initiation, emotion, gender, and professionalization. Since 2012 she has worked as a public health researcher at the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health (EPSJV) of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz). In this institution, she also works as a professor and assistant coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Teaching in Biosciences and Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (IOC). She coordinated Fiocruz the Laboratory of Scientific Initiation in Basic Education (Lic-Provoc) from 2015 to 2017 and since 2014 the research group Comparative Studies in Scientific Training. She is also a researcher associated with the Interdisciplinary Group for Migratory Studies (NIEM). She takes part on the editorial board of both the Italian Journal of Sociology of Education and the Brazilian Journal of Medical Education. She has published articles in journals based in South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and United States.