John Victor Alencar
- Team Member, The Cost of Opportunity
John Victor Alencar is a rising senior from Columbia, South Carolina, majoring in Economics and minoring in Global Health and Visual and Media Studies. He is interested in this Bass Connections project in the Baixada Fluminense because he works with and learns about social mobility in an American and international context and is excited to see how economic disparity is realized and combatted in the favelas. As a Brazilian American, he is also looking forward to delving more into his own culture and country in an academic setting. In the past, he has been involved in research and programs domestically as well as in countries like Ghana and India.