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I was born and raised in Brasília, Brazil. I graduated in International Relations from CEUB in the second semester of 2015. In my fifth semester of International Relations, I started working at CONARE-National Committee for Refugees. Initially, I have to admit that I was excited that I was going to study all the cases; as a book lover, I imagined them as books with thrilling contents. When I started to work on the cases, I listened to their stories and saw them, the thrill suddenly went away, and they stopped being stories in papers to become real people with real problems. In the future, I hope to be working in the UNHCR-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as a consultant, a job that not only involves helping refugees and asylum-seekers, but also developing projects of cooperation between countries in different fields, helping countries and institutions come up with good solutions for different problems. While working at CONARE I realized that most refugees were from Africa, and so I ended up developing a great interest in the continent, which led to my final research paper in college about the Rwandan Genocide and the inaction of the International Community.