Dr. Lília Gonçalves Magalhães Tavolaro joined Portal Commerce & Logistics in 2006 as a Senior Consultant and Co-Director of Portal’s Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation Division. Her expertise includes Brazilian federal, state, and local government policies in the areas of non-governmental organizations, social inclusion, communication, affirmative action, and work force development. As an academic researcher and consultant, Dr. Tavolaro has worked in the United States and Brazil on projects funded by prestigious and highly competitive research grants from the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (CNPq), the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES), the Center for Population Studies at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and the New School for Social Research in New York. She has published widely in academic journals covering such topics as the meaning of "race" in Brazilian affirmative action policies, education policy, ethnicity, urbanization, and the impacts of regionalization and globalization. Dr. Tavolaro received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and a Masters degree in sociology from the University of Campinas UNICAMP, and her Masters and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from the New School for Social Research. lilia@portal-commerce.com