Sophia Pestana is a Data Science Intern at WRI Brasil. She is part of the Forests, Land Use and Agriculture Programme team, collaborating in the analysis, support and spatialisation of data in projects aimed at restoring forests and landscapes.

Before joining WRI, Sophia worked for companies in the field of technology for climate monitoring and agricultural operations, as well as market intelligence strategies in large urban centres. She was a PEEG scholarship holder on the Remote Sensing Applied to Geography course and carried out her Scientific Initiation offered by Fundapeg at the Institute of Agricultural Economics (IEA) on the project ‘Price and Import Index of Natural Rubber’.

Sophia Pestana is studying Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP) and is currently taking a series of courses on data analysis and geoprocessing for climate change adaptation and mitigation.