She has a degree in Artistic Studies - Performative Arts and is a PhD researcher in Post-Colonial Studies, with a particular interest in orature, intergenerational memory, Afro-diasporic movements and contemporary practices of escapism, abstraction and healing. She has presented her academic and artistic work in several countries namely the Venice Biennale and the São Paulo Biennale. She was elected one of the 100 most influential Black personalities in Lusophony by Bantumen magazine. She published the book Ingenuidade Inocência Ignorância and co-founded The Black Union of the Arts in Portugal.