In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Juliana de Moraes Pinheiro is the co-founder of WBO and was the organization's first executive director. With a Master's degree in Public Policy from the Erasmus Mundus program, Pinheiro specialized in International Political Economy and Governance. Pinheiro has worked at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Global Alliance for the Green New Deal in Paris. Currently, she coordinates the Socio-Environmental Program at the WBO, and the Liaison & Outreach Strategy for the Parliamentary Observatory on Climate Change and Just Transition at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-ECLAC). On the show, Pinheiro discusses Brazil's movements towards becoming a green economy.

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In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Marcos Arruda, economist, professor and author. He is an associate and co-founder of the PACS Institute (Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone), in Rio de Janeiro and an associate of the Transnational Institute. Arruda is the co-founder and former director of IBASE (Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis) and a former member of the Institute of Cultural Action, in Geneva. He was also professor and lecturer at various universities in Brazil and abroad. He is the author and co-author of over 10 books, including A Mother's Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. As we approach the 60th anniversary of Brazil's 1964 military coup, Arruda remembers the harsh realities of being an activist and political prisoner during the years that followed..

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In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Peter Kornbluh, a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archive. He currently directs the Archive's Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects. He was co-director of the Iran-Contra documentation project and director of the Archive's project on U.S. policy toward Nicaragua. He is the author of Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana and The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. His articles have been published in Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He has also worked on, and appeared in, numerous documentary films, including the Oscar-winning "Panama Deception". On the show, Kornbluh discusses the importance and challenges of investigating documents from Latin America's military regimes

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In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Alcadipani, a police and crime researcher in Brazil. He is a full professor of management at the Sao Paulo Management School from the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Brazil. He got his PhD in management from the University of Manchester, UK. He has published widely in top scientific journals in his academic field. Prof. Alcadipani also writes for non-academic outlets in Brazil and has been called by Brazilian and international media outlets to discuss issues associated with police and crime in Brazil, including Reuters, BBC, Al Jazeera, and the Wall Street Journal, to mention but a few. He was a visiting scholar at Boston College, Gothenburg University, and Paris Dauphine University. On the program, Alcadipani talks about the enormous challenges Brazil faces with the expansion of organized crime.

In the last program of 2023, James Naylor Green switches roles and becomes the interviewee. The Brazil Unfiltered host, who is a professor of Brazilian history and culture at Brown University and the national co-coordinator for the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, answers questions by André Pagliarini, a 2022 and 2023 faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and co-editor of the organization's weekly newsletter. Pagliarni has written widely on Brazil for scholarly and academic audiences in outlets like Latin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, New York Times, and The Guardian as well as Folha de S. Paulo and Piauí in Brazil. In the program, Green looks back at the WBO's activities and Brazil's political scenario in 2023.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Raisa Cetra, co-executive director at ARTICLE 19 Brazil and South America and PhD student in Global Health at USP. She has a bachelor's degree in International Relations at the same university. She has worked widely on international human rights law within civil society organizations, mostly in Brazil and Argentina and in regional and global foruns, such as the United Nations, the Inter-American Human Rights System and MERCOSUR. Nationally, Raísa has extensive experience with the development of public policies that internalize human rights standards on topics such as migration, democracy and freedom of expression. On the show, Cetra discusses the challenges and controversies regarding freedom of expression and artistic freedom in the Brazilian context.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Athayde Motta, who has a long career in the areas of international development, management of civil society organizations (CSOs) and program and project development. Motta holds a master’s degree in Anthropology and a master's degree in Public Affairs (both from the University of Texas at Austin). He worked for Oxfam GB and the Ford Foundation and was the Executive Director at IBASE and the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity. He's been a member of the Executive Committees of both the Brazilian Association of NGOs (ABONG) and Forus International. He is a Synergos fellow and member of Publish What You Pay's Board of Trustees. On the podcast, Motta discusses the importance and challenges of civil society organizations in the Bolsonaro and Lula eras.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with MIla Burns, author, journalist and historian, an Associate Professor at the Dept of Latin American & Latino Studies at Lehman College, CUNY. She is the Associate Director at the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Burns is the author of Dona Ivone Lara: Sorriso Negro. She has an interdisciplinary profile with an emphasis on media, anthropology and history. She has worked as a journalist in Brazil and New York, currently as a political commentator at ICL Notícias. She has served as editor-in-chief and anchor to shows dedicated to the Latino community broadcast at TV Globo International, and has worked at TV Globo, The Economist, O Globo, and others. On the show, Burns talks about the Brazilian influence on the military coup d’état in Chile, in 1973, the subject of her next book.

Luis Adams is a partner of the Litigation, Arbitration and Compliance practices of Tauil & Chequer Advogados. In the Brasília Office, he is responsible for matters related to Superior and Supreme Courts. Adams has extensive tax experience, working as Counsel for the Federal Treasury at the Ministry of Finance for 24 years, from 1993 until his resignation request in 2017. He worked as Secretary-General of Litigation for the Attorney-General of Brazil (2001-2002) and as Legal Counsel and Adjunct Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (2003-2006). In 2006 he was named as General Counsel of the Ministry of Finance until he was chosen to be Attorney-General of Brazil, a position he kept from 2009 to 2016. As Attorney General, Adams conducted major cases in the judiciary, being responsible for coordinating the environment agreement between the Brazilian Government and Samarco, Vale and BHP. He is a columnist for the legal website Conjur, publishing articles on legal, tax and constitutional issues every Monday.

Fabio Sá e Silva is an associate professor of International Studies and the Wick Cary professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is also affiliated as a fellow at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. He studies the social organization and the political impact of law and justice in Brazil and comparatively. As an institution builder, Fabio codirects the Oklahoma University Center for Brazilian Studies, is a member of the executive committee of the Brazilian Studies Association and a trustee of the Law and Society Association - Class of 2013. In 2018, he was recognized as the outstanding faculty in his department.

Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil.

Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Rafael Grohmann, who researches labor and work issues in the digital realm. Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. He is the co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute as well as a researcher for Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects and a founding board member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labor, communication/media and work. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America. On the show, Grohmann discusses the impacts of companies such as Uber and Amazon on the labor scenario in Brazil

Jonathan Watts is a British journalist serving as the global environment editor of The Guardian. Based in the Amazon town of Altamira, Pará state, he is one of the cofounders of Sumauma, an independent news agency specialized in reporting from the Amazon. He has also reported from the Antarctic, Arctic, Amazon and several COP summits for The Guardian, covering, as he says, "a lot of grim stuff I wish wasn't happening and interviewing a lot of great people trying to stop it". Between 2012 and 2017, Watts was The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, when he interviewed political figures such as Brazilian presidents Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff and Bolivian president Evo Morales, among other political leaders of the region. He is the author of When a Billion Chinese Jump (Faber 2010), which was translated into four languages.

New ep of Brazil Unfiltered! @JamesNGreen speaks with Maria Hermínia Tavares de Almeida about the Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula government.

Brazil Unfiltered new episode: @JamesNGreen talks to Jan Rocha about her book on the networks of solidarity and resistance in 1970s and 1980s LatAm

Brazil Unfiltered new episode: James N. Green talks to André Pagliarini about the first 100 days of Lula’s government

Brazil Unfiltered new episode: James N. Green talks to Mauricio Angelo about the impact of mining on the environment.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with João Roberto Martins Filho, a renowned specialist on the relations between the military and the Brazilian state. On the program, Martins looks at the long shadow cast by the Brazilian Armed Forces over the country's governments.

In the new ep. of Brazil Unfiltered, @JamesNGreen talks to Cecilia MacDowell Santos, specialist on laws, policies, and feminist mobilizations to combat violence against women

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fiona Watson. Fiona is Research and Advocacy Director at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples' rights. She has been with Survival since 1990 and worked on many campaigns for Indigenous peoples’ rights, notably with the Yanomami, Guarani, and Awá in Brazil. She has visited many Indigenous communities in South America and is a specialist on uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. She carried out fieldwork with a Quechua Indigenous community in the Peruvian Andes for her Masters degree and lived in the Brazilian Amazon for two years in the 1980s.

​​In this episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green speaks with Fernanda Magnotta. Fernanda is a specialist in United States foreign policy. She holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas foreign relations post-graduation program, of a consortium of the State University of São Paulo (Unesp), the State University in Campinas (Unicamp) and the São Paulo Pontificate Catholic University (PUC-SP). Fernanda is also a professor and coordinator of the International Relations course at FAAP university, international politics columnist for the UOL news website and a commentator for CBN radio.