Carolina Garcia (she/her) is an assistant professor at Saint Paul University’s Élisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil). Before joining Saint Paul University, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2024–2025) at Concordia University’s Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her interdisciplinary work spans transnational feminisms, critical approaches to global development, sociology of work, and critical migration studies, grounded in decolonial and transnational feminist theories. Examining the intersections of neoliberalism and the social organization of work through intersectional feminist lenses, she is particularly interested in how gender, race, class, and nationality shape labor regimes, entrepreneurship, and citizenship, and how empowerment discourses influence policy interventions as well as everyday practices. Her doctoral research introduced the concept of empowerment economies to analyze how international development agencies and corporate social responsibility initiatives mobilize gendered and racialized narratives to integrate women from the Global South into entrepreneurial labor markets.