I am a Research Associate with the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center at Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, working on a project to develop intelligent tutoring software with game features, to promote both student learning and motivation. I am also an Instructor for C-MITES, teaching weekend courses about the environment and life in the Amazon rainforest for American elementary and intermediate school students. In the last year, I have also done consulting work using quantitative annotation methods to study students' emotional and behavioral responses to educational technology. [Curriculum Vitae]. Through the last several years, I have developed and implemented projects in environmental education, sustainable development, and health education for disadvantaged communities. I have developed projects for communities in both rural and urban Brazil, and in central England, in collaboration with NGOs, universities, and local and regional government bodies. I have also guided scientific expeditions in rural Brazil. [Curriculum Vitae]. I developed a sustainable development project in rural Northeastern Brazil, to teach adolescents living there how to preserve the local environment and how to work as tour guides for a nature reserve in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. [Read More] This project was conducted in collaboration with the Reserva Ecológica Osvaldo Timóteo (Osvaldo Timóteo Ecological Reserve), in São Jose da Lage, Alagoas, Brazil. I will be presenting on this topic at the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education. [Read Abstract]. I have led and/or participated in several other sustainable development and environmental education projects, in Northeastern Brazil: Sustainable economic development, environmental preservation, and personal health for women in a coastal fishing village [Read More] Economic opportunity education for families living in urban waste dumps [Read More] Environmental preservation and personal health for two indigenous communities in arid regions [Read More] During 2006-2007, I was a volunteer educator at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Central England. While there, I participated in the development of teaching activities and instruction of primary school children about environmental preservation [Read More]. Beyond these projects, I have several professional interests. I have: Conducted professional development courses on these topics for state government employees in Northeastern Brazil Led tour groups and scientific expeditions in Chapada Diamantina National Park, in Northeastern Brazil [Read More] Founded and managed clothing factories To read about some of my other interests, including organic gardening, [Click Here].