Delana is a researcher with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of São Paulo, and a PhD in Geography from São Paulo State University. She began her activism in housing movements and urban occupations in the city centre of São Paulo, was an activist with Consulta Popular, and worked on land regularisation in favelas on the outskirts of São Paulo and with popular education in various spaces. She coordinated the research project Observatory on Evictions with the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo and the Federal University of ABC and was the coordinator of the Women in Struggle project for the Gaspar Garcia Centre for Human Rights. She has coordinated research on evangelicals, politics, and grassroots work with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research since 2019.