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Roberta Braga

Director, Counter-Disinformation Strategies
Equis Institute
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Roberta Braga is Director of Counter-Disinformation Strategies at Equis, where she oversees the organization's work on monitoring and countering disinformation and misinformation in Latino spaces online. She previously served as Global Content and Campaigns Manager at the global law firm Baker McKenzie and as Deputy Director for Programs and Outreach at the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center. Roberta earned her MA in Global Communication with a focus on Public Diplomacy from The George Washington University and her BA in Journalism and International Security from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a Penn Kemble Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and a former Cyber Fellow with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy. Originally from Brazil, Roberta is a native Portuguese- and English-speaker, and fluent in Spanish.


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