Initially trained as a social psychologist and project manager, I have extensive experience running teams, projects, and organisations and intricate knowledge of group dynamics and informal adult education. After a career in communication, I worked as a campaign manager (Greenpeace Oceans Campaign and Global Seed Freedom Campaign), adult educator, and community organiser. For my work as a Seed Freedom advocate, I won the 1st prize of the 2014 Terre de Femmes competition for Portugal. After completing a PhD in Sociology in 2017 with a dissertation on the ecological-democratic quality of the political economy of the global food system, I worked for the H2020 "PROSEU" project as work package leader on behalf of FEUP-UPorto, successfully concluding a review and Europe-wide survey on collective forms of Renewable Energy self-consumption. Currently employed as a research fellow at ICS-ULisboa, my 6-year post-doctoral research project has focused on researching and supporting an agroecological transition in Portugal through projects such as "TRAECE" [Agroecological Vocational Training for Farmers] and the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) of the region of Odemira / Littoral Alentejo. Combining research with networking and advocacy activities, I co-organised knowledge exchange events such as the Agroecological Spring 2021 and the Agroecology Network Meeting "Confluência pela Agroecologia" in 2023. I work within a diverse and transdisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners and community organisers interested in applying and adapting collaborative and peer-to-peer methodologies from Latin America (e.g., PRA and Campesino-a-Campesino), assessment tools like TAPE- Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation, and solidary economy solutions to the Portuguese case, in particular in support of multiply-stressed agro-territories.