Ana Carolina Ogando

Ana Carolina is a Research Associate for WIEGO’s Urban Policies Programme. She currently provides research support to programmes on qualitative and participatory methodologies, gender and waste and urban related issues. Based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, she works closely with WIEGO’s waste specialist. She has collaborated on several WIEGO projects including the Gender and Waste project, the Child Care Initiative, and health risk mappings with waste pickers. She was also the senior qualitative researcher for the Informal Economy Monitoring Study (IEMS) team in Brazil. Prior to joining WIEGO she taught at the Federal University of Minas Gerais as part of her post doctoral fellowship and was an affiliated researcher at the Women’s Studies Research Center (NEPEM-UFMG). She holds Ph.D in political science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2012), specializing in gender, feminist theory, and social movements.