Brazil Unfiltered

Mila Burns is an Associate Professor at the Department of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara's Sorriso Negro (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019; Editora Cobogó, 2021) and Nasci para Sonhar e Cantar: Dona Ivone Lara, a Mulher no Samba (Editora Record, 2009). Mila has an interdisciplinary profile, with an emphasis on media, anthropology, and history. For over two decades, she has worked as a journalist in Brazil and New York, currently as a political commentator at ICL Notícias. She has served as editor-in-chief and anchor to shows dedicated to the Latino community broadcast at TV Globo International, and has worked at TV Globo, The Economist, O Globo, and others. Her current book manuscript investigates the Brazilian influence on the military coup d’état in Chile, in 1973. Her articles have been published in several newspapers, maga