Priscila Coli graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2011), with an academic exchange at ENSA-Paris Belleville (2009-2010). She holds a master’s degree in Urban Design from Columbia University (2014), and is currently a doctoral student in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral research aims to understand the role of criminal actors in the peripheral urbanization of Rio de Janeiro. At UC Berkeley, she taught the Introduction to City Planning course in 2020 and 2021. Additionally, Priscila coordinated the Latin American Cities working group from 2018 to 2021 and served as editor of the Berkeley Planning Journal from 2019 to 2020. From 2014 to 2015, she taught urban design courses in the Urban Design master’s program at Columbia University and worked as a researcher at the Urban Design Lab of The Earth Institute, participating in research projects such as Developing High Performance Green Infrastructure Systems and Micro-Infrastructure Innovation Global North. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as a coordinator at Studio-X Rio, organizing various international workshops and serving as assistant curator for exhibitions such as Lutar, Ocupar, Resistir. In 2016, she founded the L-ADU office and had three social housing projects awarded, including first place in the National Architecture Design Competition for Social Housing in the Federal District, held by CODHAB-DF.

Priscila has experience in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism design, as well as urban and regional planning, focusing mainly on the intersection between architecture and the city, social housing, and urban infrastructure.