Our Story

Brazil Talk is a non-partisan, not-for-profit online platform offering new perspectives about Brazilian issues through opinion articles, interviews, videos, graphics, and events. Our contributors come from the academic, business, media, public sector, and third sector. Brazil Talk provides readers with original, current and engaging content in economics, national politics, culture, foreign affairs, and society. Our mission is to create a robust global platform devoted to in-depth commentaries about Brazil in English.

Founded in 2015 by graduate students – Eloy Oliveira and Marcelo Bonatto – and supported by faculty members at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University in the City of New York, Brazil Talk is an open collaborative space where contributors with demonstrated expertise in Brazilian affairs share their incisive perspectives and analyses.