Ruth Cardoso is the Chair of the Comunidade
Solidaria program to combat poverty and
social exclusion in Brazil. She serves on
the editorial board of Novos Estudos, is
a member of the Joint Committee on Latin
American Studies of the Social Science Research
Council and the American Council of Learned
Societies, and is a member of the Advisory
Committee of the Estudos Feministas.
Dr. Cardoso received a Ph.D. in anthropology
from the University of Sao Paulo in 1972
and attended Columbia University on a Fulbright
scholarship for post-doctoral studies. She
has held academic positions at, among others,
the Graduate Political Science Program,
University of Sao Paulo; the City and Regional
Department, University of California; and
the Center for Latin American Studies at
Cambridge University. She has been both
researcher and director at the Brazilian
Center of Analysis and Planning, member
of the Board of the Public Educational TV
of the state of Sao Paulo, a counselor at
the National Council of Women's Rights,
and a member of the Independent Commission
on Population and Quality of Life. Ms. Cardoso
is the author of several articles on urban
anthropology, social movements and the Third
Sector.
She is married to Brazilian President Fernando
Henrique Cardoso. They live in Brasilia
and have three children.
Ruth
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