After growing up without access to green space, this 27-year old architect's first priority was improving the environment around her community.
examined factors like environmental conditions and the “burden of disease” to determine that life expectancy varies by nearly 13 years between wealthy areas and favelas. While access to green space may not seem as urgent a priority as, say, access to clean drinking water,associated with being in nature, from improved sleep and reduced stress to lower mortality rates and infectious diseases.
Because of her early exposure to architecture, Carro assumed she’d be set up to succeed when she was accepted to Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, a private university located in Vila Mariana, an hour and a half by bus from Jardim Colombo. To her dismay, the opposite was true. Carro was the only one of her classmates from a favela, and many of the references in class were over her head—unlike the other students, she’d never traveled outside Brazil or been to a museum.
Three years later, Carro graduated with a degree in architecture and urbanism from Centro Universitário FMU and immediately got offered a scholarship to complete her master’s degree. She accepted but never lost sight of her vision to transform Jardim Colombo, even when she landed an internship at the mayor’s office. “I wanted to be dedicated to my community, and I wanted to be paid to do it,” she says.
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