Dr. Santos is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. She received her Ph.D. from ISCTE-IUL Business School, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal and completed her post-doctoral work in the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business. Before joining JMC, she was a tenured Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship in the School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Rowan University, where she also served as Associate Director of the Rowan Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Dr. Santos has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers. Her primary research interests focus on the intersection of entrepreneurship and adversity, in particular under conditions of poverty. Other research interests include social entrepreneurship, gender, entrepreneurship education, and individual and team level processes in entrepreneurship. Dr. Santos’s work has been published in leading outlets including Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights. She co-authored the book “Poverty and entrepreneurship in developed countries” and co-edited Volumes 5 and 6 of the “Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy”. Presently she serves as Co-Editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship and Associate Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management. From 2019-2023 she served on Board of Directors of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the nation’s premier academic organization focused on advancing the discipline of entrepreneurship education. Dr. Santos is a founding member of the Global Partnership for Poverty and Entrepreneurship and an active member of the University of Notre Dame’s Urban Business and Poverty Initiative.