Isabela Kalil, Ph.D., is an anthropologist with a doctoral degree from the University of S�o Paulo (USP) and a former visiting scholar at Columbia University's Department of Anthropology in New York City (2011-2012). She is recognized as one of the leading experts in Brazil in the field of political extremism, hate speech, anti-gender politics, conspiracy theories and political misinformation. Among top awards and scholarships, she was the winner of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Award (Germany) on Gender and Social Justice in Latin America (2020). She served as a member of the Gender and Politics in Latin America Panel in the Global Forum Sexuality Policy Watch (2018-2022). In 2020, she started to coordinate the LED (Digital Ethnography Laboratory). She is also co-coordinator of OED Brazil (Extreme Right Observatory), an initiative dedicated to monitoring and analyzing governments, parties, radical right and extreme right movements in Brazil. In 2023, Kalil was appointed to a government panel tasked with combating hate speech and extremism by the Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship in Brazil. Currently, she is a faculty member at the S�o Paulo School of Sociology and Political Science, where she contributes to education and research in her areas of expertise.