Priscila Coli holds a B.A. in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2011), with an academic exchange at ENSA-Paris Belleville (2009-2010). She holds a M.Sc. in Urban Design from Columbia University (2014) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral research aims to understand the role of criminal actors in the peripheral urbanization of Rio de Janeiro. At UC Berkeley, she taught the course "Introduction to City Planning" in 2020 and 2021. In addition, Priscila coordinated the Latin American Cities working group from 2018 to 2021 and served as an editor for the Berkeley Planning Journal from 2019 to 2020. From 2014 to 2015, she taught design studios in the Urban Design master's program at Columbia University and worked as a researcher at the Urban Design Lab of The Earth Institute, where she participated in research projects such as "Developing High Performance Green Infrastructure Systems" and "Micro-Infrastructure Innovation Global North." Between 2015 and 2017, she worked as a coordinator at Studio-X Rio, where she organized various international workshops and served as an associate curator for exhibitions such as "Lutar, Ocupar, Resistir" (Struggle, Occupy, Resist). In 2016, she founded the L-ADU office and received awards for three social housing projects, including first place in the National Architecture Design Competition for Social Interest Housing in the Federal District, organized by CODHAB-DF.

Priscila has experience in the fields of Architecture and Urbanism design, as well as urban and regional planning, with a focus on the intersection between architecture and the city, social housing, and urban infrastructure.