Beatriz Rey holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of São Paulo (USP), a Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for Studies on the Brazilian Congress at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She also worked as a legislative assistant at the U.S. House of Representatives as a 2021-2022 APSA Congressional Fellow. She is the author of the book MyNews Explica: Congresso Brasileiro, published by Almedina Brasil.            

Keywords: Legislative politics; Latin American politics; public policy; racial politics; political institution