Priscylla Joca is a legal researcher who is a non-Indigenous Brazilian woman and an immigrant to Canada. She has researched Indigenous rights and laws and socio-environmental issues from international, critical-pluralistic, comparative, and decolonial perspectives. Prior to joining Lincoln Alexander Law, Priscylla was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. Her work, conducted under the supervision of Professor John Borrows, focuses on Indigenous laws, self-determination, and environmental governance. She received her LL.D. from the Université de Montréal (2023). Her thesis focused on free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) and self-determination, analyzing the legal-political challenges of applying protocols developed by Indigenous peoples and traditional communities to guide consultation and consent processes.

Priscylla received her LL.M. in Constitutional Law from the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil, 2011); her dissertation focused on the legal-political strategies developed by Indigenous peoples and traditional communities in their struggles for their collective rights to lands, territories, and resources.