Mi Medrado

Mi Medrado is a cultural economic Anthropologist, editor, and decolonial researcher activist.

CONTACT

mi@mimedrado.com.br

BIO

Mi Medrado is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia with a doctoral stay at Agostinho Neto University in Luanda, Angola. She holds a Master of Arts and is a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research on culture and political economy, and the decolonial aesthesis fashion knowledge pluriversality research compendium, fosters knowledge circulation and aims to elaborate on methodological tools for future fashion research in the Global South.

Medrado is at the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion as editor in chief and the current interim Chair. Bloomsbury Editor Business Case.

She is the principal investigator of the Research Center for Social Sciences in Fashion. She is the researcher co-founder of Coletivo Moda e Decolonialidade: Encruzilhadas no Sul Global, CoMoDe, and the Rede de Estudos Decoloniais em Moda (ReDeM). She is the principal investigator of the Research Center for Social Sciences in Fashion, UFBA. Mi is part of the innovation and internationalization committee at the Brazilian Association of Fashion Studies and Research and the Practice-Based Fashion Research Network (Northumbria University -UK, and Parsons University| USA).

She has lectured and workshop at higher education and fashion institutions in Angola, Germany, Brazil, the United States, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.