Alessandra Nardini holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication: Journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2014) and a postgraduate degree in Screenwriting for Film and Television from the same institution (2015). She also holds a Master's degree in Contemporary Cultural Studies from Fumec University (2018) and is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. She holds a PhD studentship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), based at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), and is a team member of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony and of the project "Migrations, media, and activisms in the Portuguese language: decolonizing mediascapes and imagining alternative futures". Alessandra is also a member of the research group Mídia e Narrativa at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Since the beginning of her academic career, she has been dedicated to researching cultural manifestations and artistic expressions in urban spaces and alternative media. During her undergraduate studies, she analyzed the media projection of Duelo de MCs, a rap event held at the Santa Tereza Viaduct in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil). Her Master’s research, funded by Fumec University and Fapemig, focused on the Hip Hop movement in the Taquaril neighborhood and the cultural practices and micropolitics of Belo Horizonte’s East Zone. She was also part of the project "Eu Sei Tudo: Cultura Plural em Revista", which aimed to understand the ideological formation processes of the Eu Sei Tudo almanac and its contemporary reverberations. Throughout her academic journey, Alessandra has maintained an interdisciplinary approach grounded in Communication studies, engaging critically with media practices, narrative construction, and socio-cultural dynamics. Her investigative choices reflect a consistent commitment to the field, particularly through the analysis of urban cultures, audiovisual languages, and the intersections between media, memory and activism. She also completed a Teaching Internship in the Communication Program at Fumec University, which includes the undergraduate degrees in Advertising and Journalism and attended two curricular units in the Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais: "Image and Writing in the work of Georges Didi-Huberman" and "Survival of the Image in Writing".