Benedito received degrees in music and architecture from Coimbra’s Conservatory of Music and Coimbra University, respectively, before earning a post-professional degree in urban design from Harvard GSD. She worked as a senior associate at James Corner Field Operations where she led many public and private urban design projects and small-scale public spaces. Benedito is the co-principal of OFICINAA, an award-winning architecture, landscape and urban design practice based in Cambridge (USA) and Ingolstadt (Germany).