Fernanda Blanco Vidal is a doctoral student from Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center (CUNY) interested in forced displacement, people`s relationship to land and water and political suffering. She is Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Psychology, City College of New York where she teaches a course of her creation “Psychology of People in Places – From Climate Changes to Gentrification. She holds an M.A in Sociology from University Federal of Bahia focus on people`s forced displaced by dams and published the book “Longing yes, Sadness no – Social Memory, Psychology and Forced Displacement”. Prior to pursuing a doctoral degree, she has worked with communities and social movement that fights against dispossessions such as Gamboa de Baixo (Fishman community in Salvador), the MST (Landless Workers Movement), Cascalheira (affected by technological disasters) among others and she has worked as Coordinator and Faculty member in two colleges in Salvador. She has been working with social memory and narratives, social and political subjectivity, social movements in Latino America.
