Manuela Bernardi

Manuela Bernardi is a film and TV writer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she was born and raised. She has collaborated on award-winning feature films and has written on shows for TV Globo, TBS, GNT, Multishow, and the History Channel. Her screenplay for the short film The Healing Tree won USC's Peter Stark Special Project grant and went on to be selected for Cannes's Short Film Corner. With a BA in journalism from PUC-Rio, Manuela got her MFA in writing for screen and television from USC in Los Angeles, which she attended on a Fulbright/CAPES scholarship.

Manuela Bernardi's Titles

She Spoke Too 14 More Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World

She Spoke Too

2025 NCSS-CBC NOTABLE SOCIAL STUDIES BOOK WINNER Don't miss this captivating sequel to the acclaimed She Spoke by Kathy MacMillan and Manuela...


She Spoke 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World

She Spoke

When the world tells you to stay quiet, do you listen, or do you speak up? In She Spoke: 14 Women Who Raised Their Voices and Changed the World,...