About Me

I was born on July 19, 1997, in Lisbon and grew up in Paço de Arcos, a charming town in the municipality of Oeiras. From an early age, I demonstrated a profound passion for everything related to words. At the end of high school, despite some uncertainty, I chose Journalism because I had always said I dreamed of being a journalist and writer.
I studied at Escola Superior de Comunicação Social, at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, for three years. My degree in Journalism provided me with valuable knowledge, lifelong friends and incredible teachers. For example, Professor Francisco Sena Santos, a great radio master, and Professor Paulo Moura, a remarkable reporter who instilled in me a passion for international and literary journalism. It was thanks to him that I became more familiar with the works of authors like Truman Capote and Joan Didion, whom I love so much today.
Between 2018 and 2019, I interned at TVI, in the Society section and on journalist Ana Leal's team. After that, I began my career at the newspapers SOL and i, where I worked until December 2024 (with a break between September 2019 and October 2020). There, I did a bit of everything, writing for all the editorial sections, but mainly for the Society, Culture and International sections.
I believe that my (still short) journalistic career has allowed me to acquire extremely important tools, from the most technical ones like time management, capturing and editing audio and video or transcribing interviews, to the most human ones like understanding others and the empathy I feel for them when I listen to what they're sharing with me.
In addition to all this, I believe that a good journalist is, above all, a good human being: I do my best to be both, and I firmly believe that what helped me most was caring for my "grandma-mom" for almost eight years. She taught me practically everything I know and trying to repay the love and affection she gave me was a unique mission.
Besides journalism, literature, and writing, I'm passionate about music (especially thanks to my dear uncle!), my dog ​​Amêndoa, helping others, writing letters and discovering new people and places. Oh and, of course, no one can touch my books, Kobo, collections of pens and notebooks, vinyl records, CDs and more!