Professor at the University of Brasília, she has academic and governmental experience in food and nutrition policies, food and nutrition security, and the right to food. Since 2008, she has been Counselor of the Brazilian National Food and Nutrition Security Council, adviser board of the presidency of the republic. Her professional life has been guided by the perspective of relating the different dimensions of the food system and consumption, determinants of food behavior, people's health, aiming at the progressive realization of right to adequate food.