I am a Black Brazilian woman, a Black queer feminist, educator, creative writer, poet, decolonial activist, and auntie. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies and was formerly Co-Director of the Race.ED Network at the University of Edinburgh. My journey in the Black Brazilian movement began at the age of 16, when I studied for the university entrance exams at an anti-racist NGO, Núcleo de Consciência Negra na USP. That training continues to shape my ethical and political worldview, deeply inspired by Brazil’s quilombola communities and samba culture. 

I am the fourth generation of women teachers in my family and have worked as an educator from a very young age, across different educational levels – from babies, children and youth education to adult literacy programmes and higher education. My research interests include traditional Black territories in Brazil, Black diasporas between the Global South and North, Afrofuturism, creative digital methodologies, affect, and love. I am passionate about collaboration and see myself as a community weaver, connecting ideas, people, and projects. 

I am currently completing my first book, “Weaving Affect with Black Diaspora: Intersectionality in (Post)colonial Britain”, which blends creative writing with my doctoral research. 

I am a vegan foodie, passionate about music, dance, and poetry. 

I am a self-identified Black mixed-race South African educator, researcher, storyteller and decolonial feminist activist. I draw fromand am inspired by my own experiences as a child born in exile to an activist mother. My research considers experiences of racial mixed-ness in relation to family, socio-historical context and legacies of coloniality. I am particularly interested in how [mixed]race is articulated, institutionalised and experienced in post-colonial contexts within the Global South and on the African continent. I draw on post and decolonial as well as Black feminist discourses to think through and approach my work.  

Alongside my academic career, I have been involved in civil society across the areas of gender and education for over 15 years. I have a particular interest in the project of decolonising “development” and bridging the gap between the academy and civil society.  

I am an avid dog lover and a huge fan of art and plants. 

I am a black Brazilian woman, teacher, anti-racist and mother. I have been a teacher since I was very young and I have worked at various levels and modalities of teaching in Foundamentary Education. I am a professor at the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. In higher education, I have been working for many years with teacher training. My research focuses on school education in quilombola communities and indigenous peoples, anti-racist education and Science Education.  I participate in the forums of indigenous school education and quilombola school education, organized by the respective movements. I am passionate about getting to know people, places and cultures.