Anna Beatriz "Bia" Figueiredo, who has been trying to move out of Brazilian open wheel racing for a year or so, has signed to race in IPS for Sam Schmidt Motorsports in 2008. The press release seems to totally downplay her family name, which is either dumb PR writing or part of an idea to park the family name, which is not the easiest to pronounce if you do not know Portugese.
I have no idea if this is a good move or not - the IPS is not exactly a picture of health, but then hardly any US open-wheel series is in any sort of healthy state right now. I hope that Bia does well - we need to see a talented female driver actually win races in a top-flight series competing against talented men in order to dispel the "babes who are lookers but cannot race" mindset that currently seems to encumber female race drivers.