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Fernanda Bak

Fernanda is a media professional with robust editorial, research and storytelling skills, spanning multiple platforms. For the past eight years, she worked at The Economist, based in New York, as a Programme Director for the events department. Fernanda is also the author of BrazilYorkers (2014). Written in both English and Portuguese, the book captures the way a diverse array of Brazilians love, struggle, and understand the city they chose to call home. She has extensive experience working for all the major Brazilian broadcasting television networks as a news reporter and newscaster. Fernanda holds a Master's degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program (ITP) and has written on state and national politics, foreign affairs, finance, technology, sustainability and energy for organizations like Rede Globo, Rede Record, SBT and Rede Bandeirantes.

LATEST ARTICLES

Education
The Education Man: “Veveu” Arruda and Brazil’s Classroom Revolution

The Education Man: “Veveu” Arruda and Brazil’s Classroom Revolution

One could say José Clodoveu de Arruda Coelho Neto suffered from an acute case of delusional optimism. It was the late ‘90's when he first manifested the desire to utterly reshape education in his native

Climate
Why Bankers Must Be Climate Activists: Q&A With Joaquim Levy

Why Bankers Must Be Climate Activists: Q&A With Joaquim Levy

"The dilemma between being sustainable and making a profit has ceased to exist in many cases," says Joaquim Levy. “And those who do not exploit this will take losses.” Levy has spent a life at

Health
Vilma Ibarra: Ending Forced Motherhood In Argentina

Vilma Ibarra: Ending Forced Motherhood In Argentina

Vilma Ibarra had been away from politics for five years. She felt at the right place as a top corporate lawyer at Corporación América, a billion-dollar Argentinian business conglomerate. After 30 years of work in

Governance
Stopping Men Killing Women. Q&A With Maria da Penha

Stopping Men Killing Women. Q&A With Maria da Penha

In 1983, Maria da Penha Fernandes was asleep when her husband shot her, leaving her paraplegic for life. Two weeks after the young bio-pharmacist left hospital, he tried to electrocute her. The case Maria da

Housing
Cities Are For Humans, Even After Covid. Interview With Urban Visionary Jan Gehl

Cities Are For Humans, Even After Covid. Interview With Urban Visionary Jan Gehl

While others have called for a more humane approach to cities over the years, arguably no one has had as much influence on shaping urban spaces and shifting the way we think about urban design

Inclusive Economy
Getting To Zero Poverty. Martin Burt’s Big, Practical Idea.

Getting To Zero Poverty. Martin Burt’s Big, Practical Idea.

At a young age, Martin Burt challenged the view that poverty stemmed from the bad habits of the poor, marshaling the case that its deepest roots are to be found in the actions of the

Citizenship & Rights
Closing The Pandemic Gender Gap

Closing The Pandemic Gender Gap

“Women are bearing the brunt of the economic and social fallout of COVID-19, and it's going to get worse,” says Isabel Saint-Malo, warning that even the limited advances in female empowerment made in the past

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