Ana Deborah Lana

Ana Deborah is a Project and Research Officer in the Data Feminism Program at Data-Pop Alliance. She holds a BA in International Relations from Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UNIBH) in Brazil, and a MSc in Human Security at Aarhus University, in Denmark.

During the COVID-19 crisis, Ana worked in the Humanitarian field through Doctors Without Borders (MSF) where she supported fundraising efforts and Human Resources for workers on the field. During that time she also volunteered at Cio da Terra, a collective of migrant, refugee and stateless women in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. As part of the collective, she mediated the first ever public hearing for migrant and refugee women’s rights in her State. In terms of research, she contributed to the Repository of Recommendations and Good Practices in response to COVID-19 for the City Hall of Belo Horizonte, a work that resulted in the implementation of several emergency and recovery actions in the city. During her bachelor’s program she participated in the presentation of a Shadow Report on combating corruption in Latin America in partnership with Transparency International at the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. As part of her MSc’s internship, Ana supported Building Communities, a non-for-profit organization working with reforestation, kitchen and medicinal gardens with women in Guatemala, which resulted in a Thesis collaboration to investigate the link between Food Sovereignty and Political Agency in the municipality of Sololá.

Ana has been a part of the DPA team since 2021, where she has contributed to several projects on the intersection of gender and data across over 13 countries. She received an Outlier Award for Academic Excellence for the International Relations Bachelor’s program and, in 2022, she was awarded with a Danish Government Scholarship for highly talented non-EU/EEU students.

Ana’s main interests are related to gender and women’s rights, natural resource management, and Food, Environmental and Health Security, especially in Latin America.

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LINKS WE LIKE #42 “Woman, Life, and Freedom” Chant of Ongoing Protests in Iran On September 13, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for “improperly” wearing her hijab. Three days later, after being held captive in...

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LINKS WE LIKE #41 “You’ll never change anything in this country through voting. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.” – Jair Bolsonaro On October 2nd, 2022, Brazilians headed to the polls to vote for a host of candidates running for multiple roles at...

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LINKS WE LIKE #39 Imagine being able to detect crime hotspots in your city, use facial recognition software to match camera footage from a robbery with a database of images, or even predict the likelihood of a crime (including time...

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LINKS WE LIKE #37 Health care is one sector for which the massive amount of data produced daily holds great promise. Data from electronic health records, medical devices and health-related apps (and other sources) has grown so large that they...

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LINKS WE LIKE #36 Accurate data is pivotal to identifying and responding to the needs of those impacted by a variety of shocks, including violent conflicts, environmental disasters, epidemics, and other life-threatening emergencies. By gathering and processing personal, public, and...

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LINKS WE LIKE #34 Repetitive, structured, and monotonous are adjectives often associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Normally these tools are not linked with being creative, let alone with the creation of art. However, in recent years...

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An exploration of how Indigenous women are leading efforts to curtail land expropriation in Latin America. An exploration of how Indigenous women are leading efforts to curtail land expropriation in Latin America, including how Earth Observation technology can aid these...