Luisa Portugal is a Program Officer at the 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 Grand Challenge on Halving Global Violence (HGV) and its flagship initiatives, including the HGV Task Force, Peace in Our Cities (PiOC), and the Gender Equality Network for Small Arms Control (GENSAC) along with the SDG16+ team.
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 has also worked as a legal analyst for 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 bachelor’s in law from Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).
