As a cultural manager, producer and programmer of shows, she oversees every stage of presenting cultural events, including project conception and design, national and international artistic selection, budgeting, fundraising and financial planning, executive production, communication and marketing, and team management.

As a programmer, she favours the performing arts, presenting theatre productions, dance companies and music performances of every kind – from classical to jazz, opera, multimedia and contemporary circus – from many different backgrounds and in several countries. She also co-produced a television series about Portuguese contemporary dance companies, with the support of Fundação EDP.

Her work extends beyond Portugal to Spain, France, Macau – where she presented Sofia Escobar and Mayumana, among other artists – Hong Kong, and Brazil, where she brought the National Ballet of Spain to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In the USA, Japan, South Korea, South Africa and Spain she presented the tour of Fernando Pessoa’s Ode Marítima with Diogo Infante and João Gil, and she also works in Mexico and Angola, among other countries.

Some of the artists and companies she has worked with include: Woody Allen, José Carreras, Kiri Te Kanawa, Paco de Lucia, Vicente Amigo, Mayumana, Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Cullbergballet, Joaquin Cortés, National Ballet of Spain, Grupo Corpo, The Manhattan Transfer, Count Basie Orchestra, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, B.B. King, Georges Moustaki, Ute Lemper, Cirque Plume, Leona Lewis, Joe Cocker, Bryan Ferry, Scorpions, Roberto Carlos, Maria Bethânia, Gilberto Gil and Miguel Falabella, among many others.

She has also developed many cultural projects featuring almost every major Portuguese artist, notably the conception and programming of the “Concertos Íntimos” in Fafe. She launched pioneering digital and hybrid projects during the pandemic and currently collaborates with new initiatives at cultural venues in Lisbon.

She works regularly with the pianist and artistic director Adriano Jordão, particularly as general director and producer of the Mafra Music Festival and in the conception and delivery of other cultural activities in the town, in close partnership with the municipality and the National Palace. She also collaborates occasionally with the Azores International Festival and with other festivals in Portugal and abroad, in both the performing and visual arts.

She was curator and programmer of the 1st and 2nd editions of Festival IN (Lisbon) in 2013 and 2015 – a festival dedicated to the cultural and creative industries – and, also in 2015, took the installation “A Beleza que não é só minha” (“The Beauty That Is Not Only Mine”) by visual artist Cristina Rodrigues to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

She also mentors young artists at the start of their careers and works with international projects with a view to bringing them to Portugal.

In addition to her role as Managing Director of Décima Colina, from 2017 to 2020 she also served as a local councillor in Lisbon.

She has worked as a volunteer and, in 2020, during the pandemic, developed and implemented an emergency food project in collaboration with Refood and Scout Group 1100.