Ana Claudia Teixeira

Ana Claudia Teixeira holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas; she coordinated the Citizen Participation Team Polis Institute between 2003 and 2010, where she developed training, research and consultancy activities. She is the author of Identidades em construção: as organizações não-governamentais no processo brasileiro de democratização (2003) and, with Souza and Lima, of Arquitetura da Participação no Brasil (2012).

Her current research interests deal with democracy, participation in public policy and social movements.

She is currently an independent consultant and researcher in the Center for Research on Participation, Social Movements and Collective Action - NEPAC - Unicamp.