She is currently a food researcher and leader of the Healthy Diets Program of the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection (Idec) and a scientific researcher at the Center of Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health (NUPENS) of Sao Paulo University. She is a member of the National Council of Food and Nutrition Security - CONSEA since 2014 as part of the civil society representation and member of the Alliance on Healthy and Adequate Diets, a civil society coalition to push forward public policies on food and nutrition security in Brazil.