In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green interviews Vera Paiva, a Full Professor in the Department of Social Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the University of São Paulo. She is dedicated to psychosocial approaches to inequality and sexuality and to the innovation of health practices based on human rights, with an emphasis on STIs/AIDS and covid-19. She is the eldest daughter of Rubens Paiva, a Brazilian engineer and politician tortured and murdered by Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971. Her family's life is the subject of feature film I'm Still Here, a box office hit in Brazil, shortlisted in the 2025 Academy Awards International Film category. In the show, they discuss the ways Brazil's dictatorship period still reverberates through society and what I'm Still Here adds to the conversation.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Camila Rocha, Scientific Director of CCI/Cebrap, a renowned Brazilian think tank. A PhD in Political Science from the University of São Paulo, she won the USP Thesis Award and the best doctoral thesis award from the Brazilian Political Science Association. A finalist for the 64th Jabuti Prize with the book Less Marx, More Mises: Liberalism and the New Right in Brazil, she also serves as Global Advisor for Our Common Home (Geneva), is a member of the board of the Instituto Democracia em Xeque (Democracy in Check Institute – São Paulo), and a columnist for the daily newspaper Folha de São Paulo. On the show, they discuss the national reverberations of the recent local elections in Brazil.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Erika Robb Larkins, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Behner Stiefel Chair of Brazilian Studies and the Director of the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at California State University, San Diego. Her first book, The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil (University of California Press, 2015), explores the political economy of spectacular violence in one of Rio’s most famous favelas. Her second book, The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and the Social Order in Brazil, is forthcoming from Cornell University Press. She has also published on issues of race, gender, and politics in Brazil, with recent articles appearing in academia and mainstream press outlets. On the show, they examine violence and security issues in Brazilian cities.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Tainah Santos Pereira, who is a PhD student of International Political Economy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Tainha has a MA in Political Science from the Federal State University of Rio de Janeiro (Unirio) and a BA in International Relations from Universidade Estácio de Sá. She was a Fellow of the Draper Hills Summer Program on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in 2022 at Stanford University. Pereira is currently political coordinator for Mulheres Negras Decidem (Black Women Decide), a social movement dedicated to promoting Black women participation in institutional politics. On the show, they discuss what are the challenges faced by progressive candidates in Brazil's municipal elections

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Isabel Figueiredo, an ecologist and coordinator of the Cerrado and Caatinga Program at the Institute of Society, Population and Nature (ISPN). With a Master's degree in Ecology from the University of Brasilia, she has worked for eighteen years on the conservation of the Cerrado with indigenous peoples and communities to promote sustainable uses of biodiversity. She coordinated the Small Grants Program in Brazil (PPP-ECOS) for 17 years, supporting community initiatives that generate socio-environmental benefits. On the show, they discuss the Cerrado, Brazil's midwestern portion which is vital to the economy and faces major environmental challenges.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Andre Pagliarini, an assistant professor of history and international studies at Louisiana State University. He is also a faculty fellow at the Washington Brazil Office and a non-resident expert at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Pagliarini 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. A 2022-23 Fulbright scholar, he is currently working on three book manuscripts on nationalism in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and mass politics across post-independence Latin America. On the show, they discuss the effects of the US elections on the Brazilian political scene.

In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Debora Diniz, a Brazilian university professor, human rights activist, documentarist, and public intellectual. Diniz served as a professor at University of Brasília for almost 20 years. She is the founder of Anis – Instituto de Bioética, an organization that specializes in the use of video and research for evidence-based advocacy, policy change, and strategic litigation on health and rights. Diniz served as Deputy Chief Executive Officer at Fòs Feminista (2018-2023), an international alliance for reproductive justice. In 2020, she was the recipient of the esteemed Dan David Prize, and in 2024 the honorary degree at the University of Ottawa. On the program, they talk about the rightwing backlash against women rights and those who advocate for them in Brazil.

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In the new episode of Brazil Unfiltered, James Naylor Green talks to Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, member of the Democratic Party and representative of the 37th Congressional District in Los Angeles County. She is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and serves as Vice Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee. She is the Co-Chair of the Congressional Brazil Caucus, and a Whip and Outreach Co-Chair of the Democratic Women’s Caucus. A fierce advocate for the African diaspora both in California’s 37th District and around the world, she leveraged her role on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa to help establish the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s Global African Diaspora Initiative (GADI). On the program, they discuss several current aspects of the relations between the United States and Brazil.

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.