Marina is a social communicator and community builder. She works at Amazon Watch as an Executive Assistant, and has worked as a communication manager and project director at nonprofit organizations in NY and in the Bay Area, California.

Marina is Brazilian and has for the past decade dedicated her time to visit Indigenous communities in Brazil and learn about their traditions.

Her curiosity and love for indigenous traditions was first inspired by the awareness of growing up in a region of São Paulo, Brazil, that was originally land to the Guarani people. Her contact with indigenous arts started at an early age with the stories her father used to bring home along with handcrafted objects.

“I grew up in a neighborhood where most streets have Tupi-Guarani names. The street I grew up in was called ‘Caiubi’, which in the indigenous Tupi-Guarani language means ‘blue leaves’, while the first house I ever lived was in a street named Kaiowá, named after the indigenous people that occupied that piece of land prior to colonization. The subtle sound of those words called me to a journey of discovering the stories of those peoples - and their relatives - and their relationship with what they know.”