Cristiana Vale Pires is graduated in Psychology.l, MSc and PhD in Anthropology. Since 2009 she is working and coordinating several national and European community-based and action-research projects in the fields of sexual work, nightlife governance and harm reduction. She was directly involved in the design, implementation and coordination of several innovative projects namely, SAFE!N Cais, AllCool, Lisbon Nightlife Commission proposal, Sexism Free Night and Ponto Lilás. She is a researcher in CEDH, LxNights, Drinking Studies and is also one of the founders of Kosmicare Association. Currently, she collaborates as an integrated researcher and lecturer at Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Portuguese Catholic University. She is also a coordinator of community-based projects at Kosmicare, and expert consultant on gender perspectives in drug use at the EMCDDA and at the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe.