Stephanie Abdalla

Stephanie Graeml Abdalla (PhD student, Media Studies) is a journalist and human rights activist from Brazil, whose practical work and research focus on alternative human rights discourses, media activism, feminist journalism, and transnational identities. In her home country, she received a bachelor's in Journalism from PUCPR and a Graduate Diploma in Human Rights, Social Responsibility, and Global Citizenship from PUCRS. She obtained her Master's degree in Gender and Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Spain, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Media Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Women & Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Stephanie is committed to creating and advancing grassroots media iniciatives that inform theory, and vice versa, as she believes in bridging the gap between activism and research.