Nina Leibbrandt is a Master's student of political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science (OSI) of the Freie Universität Berlin, where she also completed her Bachelor's degree in political science with a regional focus on Latin America. Since 2023 she has been working as a student assistant at the FU Berlin for the Maria Sibylla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (Mecila).