Dr. Rogério Pinto

Biography

Rogério M. Pinto, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, utilizes art-based methods to conduct community-engaged research in the United States and Brazil. His work, funded by the National Institutes of Health, focuses on investigating strategies to improve delivery services for HIV drug-use prevention care and developing interventions to assist racial and ethnic sexual minoritized groups in fostering critical consciousness for health-promoting behaviors. Pinto's artistic endeavors include the one-person play 'Marília,' which he performed in 2015 at New York City's Theatre Row, and which later won the United Solo Festival Documentary Script Award. The narrative of 'Marília' is influenced by the tragic death of his three-year-old sister and has led him to create the art installation 'Realm of the Dead,' which explores his own marginalization as a gender non-confirming, mixed-race Latinx immigrant and was presented as part of the School of Social Work's Centennial celebration in 2021. Other exhibits include 'Rogério Pinto: COLORISM' at the Wright Museum and the Duderstadt Gallery.

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