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(BA Anthropology, 2005 Columbia ³Ô¹ÏÍø; MA Anthropology, 2010 ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado; PhD Anthropology, 2018 ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado). Meryleen’s research examines current human rights organizing in São Paulo, Brazil. She investigates the ramifications of police violence and how subjugated communities both embody and deal with social, economic, and political adversity. Her advisor was Donna Goldstein.

Spring 2017 News
Meryleen has garnered another award. CARTSS awarded her $1000 in Graduate Student Funds in support of her project entitled Women Detained: Justice and Institutional Violence in the San Paulo Criminal Justice System.