Brazil Unfiltered

Natalia de Campos is a performance and theater artists, producer, writer, educator, translator and activist born in São Paulo, Brazil. She has lives in New York for the last 25 years, where she founded the multidisciplinary arts collaborative Syncretic Pleasures, to produce performance and arts events with different collaborators. She has taught English and Portuguese about different social movements in Brazil to non-native speakers for many decades while also producing and performing works by Brazilian authors, including her own. In 2016, she cofounded the Defend Democracy in Brazil committee in New York with a group of Brazilian activists to fight for democracy and social justice. She has taught and lectured to independent non-profit organizations and at New York University, Columbia University, the Graduate Center of CUNY on social practices, social engagement, solo performances and New York City activism. Natalia has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of São Paulo and a masters degree in