PORTraits: Jessica Glass (Portuguese at Tulane Video Series)

Meet the PORTulane community!
Jessica Glass is a Latin American Studies Ph.D. student now living and researching in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has been conducting ethnographic research on protest culture and social mobilization, urban changes in Rio de Janeiro and their impacts on marginalized populations, patterns of labor and the informal economy, and the criminalization of race and poverty in Brazil since 2013.

Special thanks to Frida Melgar for her assistance in this project.

You can watch the full video here.