Professor, journalist, poet, and documentary filmmaker. He serves as a professor of media and Indigenous communities through the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. He specializes in Brazilian literary and cultural studies, focusing on representations of the Amazon and the environment in 20th- and 21st-century Brazilian literature and cinema. His journalistic work has been published in prominent outlets such as Público, Folha de S.Paulo, Mediapart, Latin America Bureau, and El País. He produced and directed two documentaries that explore humanity’s complex relationship with the natural world: Beyond Fordlândia (2018) and Stepping Softly on the Earth (2022). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Amazônia Latitude, an environmental publishing house and digital magazine, and also the author of The Amazon in Times of War (2024).