Alessandra Orofino

Biography

Alessandra Orofino Poubel is a Brazilian economist, cultural strategist, non-profit executive, and documentary filmmaker. She graduated with a degree in economics and human rights from Columbia University and studied political science at Sciences Po Paris. Her early career involved field research on human rights issues in Brazil and India before she transitioned into civic mobilization and narrative strategy. In 2011, she co-founded NOSSAS (originally launched as Meu Rio), a prominent civic technology organization and advocacy lab that grew into a large membership-driven campaigning network in…