Manager, Amalgamar | Brazil Mayra is currently a lecturer and manager of the nonprofit, Amalgamar. She has been engaged in social actions dedicated to education since the beginning of her professional career and has helped pave paths for Black women and the LGBT movement. She has developed work in spaces for construction and maintenance of health care and institutions that work … Read More

Popular Legal Prosecutor, Géledes Institute | Brazil Tatiane comes from the extreme northwest of São Paulo and grew up in an Eclesial de Base community (CEBs) where she forged her critical social development. It was at Pastoral da Juventude that she began her activism with the project Observatório da Juventude, in search of public policies for young people. Today she … Read More

Executive Director, Girl Up Brasil | Brazil  Leticia is the Executive Director of Girl Up Brasil. With a degree in psychology, she has been working in the field of gender and youth for over a decade. She is the Cofounder of AzMina Magazine. In early 2018, Letícia accepted the challenge of bringing Girl Up to Brazil. Under her leadership, the … Read More

Project Consultant, Terceiro Andar Assessoria Educacional | Brazil Renata is a project consultant on Terceiro Andar Educacional, founding member of the collective project Território em Justiça Social, and a postdoctoral fellow, researcher, and professor of human rights at Ritter dos Reis University. Renata has been engaged in issues of human rights, gender, and racial equity since adolescence. She dedicates herself … Read More

Director, Terceira Andar Assessoria Educacional | Brazil Fernanda is a university professor, feminist, and the director of Terceira Andar Assessoria Educacional, an organization that works with undergraduate and graduate students and provides qualified training in gender and diversity. She also coordinates the Bodies, Policies and Autonomy Project (encorpA) and is a member of the collective project Território em Justiça Social, … Read More

Co-Founder, A Visionária Lab | Brazil Ana is an activist for equity and social justice, a documentary filmmaker, a researcher of Afro-Brazilian history and culture, and a specialist in social entrepreneurship. A Black and bisexual social entrepreneur, she is the co-founder of A Visionária Lab, a cinema and creative economy laboratory. She fights discrimination and underrepresentation of Black women in … Read More

Communications Professional, Atairu Cultura e Multimídia | Brazil Tamires is a communications, concept art and multimedia professional, producer, and facilitator of sociocultural and artistic actions. She works at Atairu Cultura e Multimídia, a production company, where she also provides communication services in an effort to encourage women to know more about their rights and expand the impact of their actions. … Read More

Director of Operations, Instituto AzMina | Brazil Marília is a Black woman, journalist, and the director of operations at the AzMina Institute, a nonprofit organization that uses information, technology, and education to combat gender inequality. Marília believes that quality information saves lives and she defends communication as a right, which is capable of giving access to full citizenship. For two years, … Read More

Founder and Executive Director, Project Vivas | Brazil Rebeca is Founder and Executive Director of the Project Vivas, founded in 2020, which helps women, girls, and people with the ability to conceive gain access to legal abortion services in Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia. Rebeca is a lawyer and an activist for sexual and reproductive rights. In 2017, Rebeca was the first … Read More

Manager, Dona Xica Cultural Space and Ubuntu Community Library | Brazil  Maria is responsible for implementing the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood project in the territory of Parelheiros. She is the Manager of the Dona Xica Cultural Space and Ubuntu Community Library, a place that hosts activities and is a cultural reference for the local community. She organizes a … Read More