Ana Carolina Evangelista is a political scientist with a master’s degree in international relations from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, PUC-SP) and a master’s degree in public administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas (Getulio Vargas Foundation, FGV-SP). She is currently a researcher at the Instituto de Estudos da Religião (Institute for Religious Studies, ISER) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Her research focuses on Brazil’s political system, elections, and the role of religious groups in politics.
In recent years, she has become a leading voice in public debate, both in Brazilian and international media, on the participation of religious groups in Brazilian politics. Since 2018, she has also covered elections through this lens, writing columns for Piauí Magazine and Canal Meio.