Born in Brazil, Moara currently lives in New York City, where she is a MFA candidate at Columbia University. She graduated in Sociology, Anthropology and Political Sciences at USP (University of Sao Paulo) and has a Master in Documentary Theory from Unicamp (University of Campinas). She worked as an associate producer and co-writer in the documentaries Olmo and the Seagull (2015) and The Edge of Democracy (2019), both directed by Petra Costa.