She graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a B.A. in the honors-only Social Studies department and a Certificate in Latin America Studies, and she co-founded the still-popular cultural show Presencia Latina. After a summer internship in the Latin America Studies department at the Council on Foreign Relations, Manuela accepted a Princeton-in-Asia Fellowship to teach and study at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and to focus on Sino-Latin American relations. A Brazilian-American, she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and increasingly conversant in Mandarin. For more information, check out manuelasweb.com.