Dieric is a Master's student in Sociology and Law at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil, and a member of the Center for Studies in Labor Law and Social Security at the University of Fortaleza (NEDTS). He graduated in law from the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), and worked as a research assistant at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2019. He is co-author of the following two papers: Marginalization and Violations of Rights of Wastepickers in the streets of Fortaleza/CE: an analysis of socio-juridical aspects in the light of the 1988 Federal Constitution, and Health and Social Security Deprotection of Non-associated Wastepickers in Fortaleza - CE: a socio-legal analysis of the precarity of their work.