Kamilla Esteves Silva holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Portuguese with a minor in Spanish and a concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2018) from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She also holds a M.A. in Educational Studies (2022), focusing on new language acquisition and social justice in education from Tufts University. Kamilla is also a Forró dance instructor, a traditional Brazilian partner dance which she plans on incorporating into her studies at the Ph.D in Portuguese and Brazilian Literatures which she is currently pursuing at University of California, Santa Barbara.