About Speaker

Growing up in Brazil, the daughter of a forest engineer and an agronomist, science, and nature was part of her childhood. Since she can remember, Carla was attracted to all life forms but the small and micro ones always had a special place in her heart. Graduated in Biological Science with a minor in Teaching, Carla’s path developed by connecting scientific knowledge development and teaching, focusing on breaking the barrier and shorting the distances between academia and the practical world. Carla finished her Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at Oregon State University (OSU) looking for the microbe's power to minimize human impact on this planet. Her experiences as part of the team that built an educational center category II of UNESCO in Water back in Brazil, plus her years of consulting experience in the private sector and for the government in environmental impacts regulations and legislation, prepared Carla to better support and guide research, workshops, and teaching at Dr. Elaine Soil Food Web School. One of her main interests is the interconnection among the microbes in the soils and how the nutrient cycling efficiency affects plant and human nutrition.