Luna Borges is an interdisciplinary scholar and social justice advocate. Her research focuses on socio-legal mobilization for reproductive, gender and racial justice and employs critical epistemologies to unearth and transform inequalities within the law. She has conducted mixed-method research on Brazil’s public policies to address gender-based violence, regional mechanisms to combat State-led violence as well as constitutional cases on reproductive justice and intersectionality. Her doctoral dissertation analysed how the Federal Supreme Court (STF) of Brazil responded to intersectional demands for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) during the Zika epidemic and the Covid-19 pandemic, both periods in which Brazil was the epicenter of public health crises. Her current scholarship applies critical legal thinking to develop de-colonial analysis of care interventions for SRHR in historically marginalized territories and communities.

Currently, Dr. Borges is a Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic, Columbia Law School, where she collaborates with students and civil society in transformational advocacy and critical pedagogy. She is also an Associate Research Scholar at the Human Rights Institute.
 

Previously, she worked at Fòs Feminista, where she joined forces with a vibrant ecosystem of social movements and civil society organizations to co-coordinate a multi-country project to challenge abortion criminalization while increasing access to self-managed abortion in Latin America.

Luna holds degrees from the University of Brasília (UnB) and Harvard Law School.