Yasmin Curzi is a postdoctoral research fellow at UVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. Her areas of interest and expertise span human rights law, digital law, gender studies, and digital sociology.
She is a professor at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, having acted as coordinator of its diversity and inclusion program (2023–2024) and as a researcher at its Center for Technology and Society (2019–2024). At FGV, Curzi currently coordinates the “Digital Media and Conflict Prevention” project (2023-25), funded by the European Union. She is also the coordinator of the Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility at the UN Internet Governance Forum and a practicing lawyer, registered in the OAB-RJ.
Previously, she was a data analyst at the Public Policy Department from FGV-Rio, consultant for the NGO Soul Sisters (São Paulo), and correspondent for the Stop Street Harassment NGO in Washington, D.C. She has also consulted for international organizations including the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, Chayn and End CyberAbuse, and InternetLab/Revista Azmina for the development of the MonitorA (an observatory of political and electoral violence against candidates on social networks).
Curzi has a PhD in sociology from the Institute of Social and Political Studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University, a master’s degree in social sciences from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and two bachelor’s degrees from FGV-Rio—one in law and one in social sciences, including an academic exchange period at the Université Sorbonne Paris-IV.
