Luisa Portugal is a Senior Program Officer at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) on the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team.
At CIC, her primary focus is working with the Halving Global Violence (HGV) program and its flagship initiatives, including the HGV Task Force, Peace in Our Cities (PiOC), and Data for Peace, Within this work, she focuses in particular on how cities and other policymakers use data, technology, and AI to build more effective and more human-centered public safety and violence prevention strategies.
Luisa is also an Adjunct Professor of Data Visualization and Storytelling at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Prior to joining CIC, Luisa worked on a project with the International Rescue Committee’s Refugee Youth Summer Academy (RYSA), where she implemented and analyzed monitoring and evaluation tools for the program, and as a research assistant at NYU, where she worked on topics related to migration. Previously, she worked as a legal analyst in the private sector.
Luisa holds a master’s degree in public policy with a specialization in international development from New York University, and a master’s in constitutional law and a bachelor’s in law from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).