Carolina is a Research Assistant at Samuel Hall. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and International Relations from Warwick University and a Master’s degree in International Law from SOAS University, focusing on human rights in displacement, conflict, post-conflict and development settings.

Prior to Samuel Hall, Carolina worked for the EUAA to work as an external asylum officer in Fedasil’ Belgium reception centres, where she conducted focus groups discussions to assess the needs of asylum seekers in the centres and acted as site coordinator in the opening of a new centre in the Wallonia region. She also did internships with the United Nations in Switzerland and Guinea-Bissau. As an intern, she worked in the fields of displacement, security, human rights and diplomacy with UNAIDS and the UK Mission for the UN in Geneva, as well as with the UN Peacebuilding Mission for Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) in Bissau. Carolina was also a volunteer with INGOs in refugee-based emergency responses in Larissa, Northern Greece and Dundo, Northern Angola.

She has a passion for human rights in fragile settings and for different cultural contexts within these thematic areas.