Róquia Gonçalves Guerra Camara

Roquia Gonçalves Guerra Camara is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Aix-Marseille University, South of France, and a trainee in charge of the implementation of gender mainstreaming within a local metropolitan administration. She was born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, to Bissau Guinean parents and has been living in Marseille since 2013. She is mainly interested in understanding how public policies can forge gender equality, positively impact the life of diverse people and foster their social emancipation, the state's capacity on social regulation and the partnerships between the state and associations to ensure effective democracy. She has previously worked as an intern within public authorities' administrations to evaluate and work on the development of youth policies and partnerships between different public bodies and associations. She has also worked as a project's manager in a local association to enable young people from low-income backgrounds who are often excluded from mobility programs to bcome part of exchanges, trainings, and volunteering missions abroad. She received a BSO from the University of Lisbon, an MSO and a Master's degree on Social and Solidarity based Economy from Aix-Marseille University.