Córdova studied Industrial Design at the
Federal University of Brasilia, completed an MBA at the
Fundação Getúlio Vargas and earned a MPA at
Harvard Kennedy School in 2022. She is a self taught developer. Since 2006, she worked in the Brazilian public news agency
Agência Brasil, first as datavis designer and developer, later as product and then project manager. Her team managed to make the agency a reference for new ways of information interaction, using
hypervideo tutorials,
newsgames and
citizen journalism. Her team won two consecutive times the
Vladimir Herzog Award, for human rights and Journalism in Brazil, in the categories Internet (webdocumentary "Nação Palmares") and Cultural Illiteracy (series of articles "O Analfabetismo, a exclusão pelas letras"). She also participated in three other works ("Terra Invadida", "Terra Dividida", "Usinas do Rio Madeira: problema ou solução") that were finalists in the
Caixa award of social journalism editions of 2007 and 2008. In the subsequent period, from a position in the United Nations'
UNESCO, Córdova developed and pushed forward several public participation processes within several Ministries in the Brazil Government led by the
Workers' Party. In the Secretariat of Digital Culture at the
Ministry of Culture, she developed software for the public consultations of the
Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet and for The Copyright Law reform. At the same Secretariat she worked on projects for multimedia access and archiving, using technologies for decentralization.. This work was presented at the International Symposium of Public Policies for Digital Collections . Afterwards, under the Secretariat for Legislative Affairs of the
Ministry of Justice she developed the public participation platform for the Ministry. which once implemented received the prize A Rede. From 2012 to 2016 Córdova joined
the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as project leader, participating in the Web Payments Task Force and being Co-Chair of the Working Group on Best Practices for Data on the Web, which produced the W3C Recommendation "Data on the Web Best Practices", the "W3C Data Quality Vocabulary" and the "W3C Dataset Usage Vocabulary" under her guidance. During this time, she also led the development of the Open Data for Development Network platform or the W3C Brazil project of Artificial Intelligence applied to participatory processes. She translated the "Architecture of the World Wide Web, volume 1" to Brazilian Portuguese. In 2016, Córdova was appointed fellow of the
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society (
Harvard University), where she has been doing research around open data, online identity and
algorithmic governance, with an
IEEE publication and co-organizing the workshop "Algorithms, Law and Society: Building Rights for a Digital Era". She has also continued her work on open data standards as part of the Beneficial Ownership Data Standard by the
Web Foundation. In 2017, she was appointed fellow as part of the first promotion of fellows in the Digital HKS at the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government. ==Activism and social engagement==