Born in Rio de Janeiro and a Botafogo fan, Adriana has lived in Brasília since 1994. A communicator, she specializes in environmental policies and coordinates the Socio-Environmental Policy and Law Program at ISA. She serves on the board of the Climate Observatory and serves on the boards of several organizations. She was a member of the Executive Board of the Brazilian Association of NGOs (ABONG) and a civil society representative on the National Environmental Council (CONAMA) and the Steering Committee of the Amazon Fund (COFA).

A Bahian by birth and heart, raised in São Paulo, he is the father of three and grandfather of four granddaughters. He is an Indigenous advocate with 42 years of experience working with Indigenous and traditional populations. A founding partner of ISA and Imaflora, he founded and coordinated ISA's Xingu program for 20 years and served as ISA's executive secretary for nine years, until 2020. He currently serves on the boards of directors of ISA and Imaflora and serves as the Executive Secretary of the Xingu+ network.

An anthropologist and activist since the period of resistance to the military dictatorship in Brazil. One of the founders of CEDI, where he was editor of the series Indigenous Peoples in Brazil. He received the Goldman Environmentalist Award/92 and is a founding partner of several organizations, including ISA. He was coordinator of the organization's Rio Negro Program.

A journalist with a PhD in Communication and Semiotics from PUC-SP, Leão collaborated on the Indigenous Peoples program at the former CEDI (National Institute of Indigenous Studies) and on the Pro-Indian Commission during the campaign against the Emancipation of Indigenous Peoples in 1979. He has worked in various newsrooms and is currently the Director of Journalism at TV Cultura. He has been covering issues related to Indigenous peoples since the 1980s and has been a member of the ISA Board of Directors since 2018.

Coordinator of ISA's Xingu Program, Biviany is the mother of Camila and Gabriela, a political scientist, lawyer, and master's degree holder in anthropology. A Colombian native living in Brasília, Biviany has worked in the Amazon alongside indigenous peoples and traditional communities since 1998 and specializes in the right to free, prior, and informed consultation and consent, environmental licensing, and public participation in major infrastructure projects.

Fabio was born in São Paulo in 1981 and holds a degree in Accounting from FEA-USP. He joined ISA as an intern in June 2003 and, since then, has graduated, married, had two children (Fernando and Larissa, who received ISA diapers), and become the organization's Administration Coordinator. He enjoys baseball, video games, logic puzzles, and spreadsheets. He says he learns something new every day from the people at ISA.

An Indigenous activist, Marcos has been connected to the Yanomami for over 20 years. From them, he has learned that it is possible to live on this planet that considers nature as something greater. Coordinator of ISA's Rio Negro Program, he also works alongside the region's 23 ethnic groups to promote a forest and farm economy, community-based Indigenous tourism, recognition of the socio-environmental services provided by Indigenous peoples and their territories, and the appreciation of their traditional knowledge.

Born and raised in the interior of São Paulo, she graduated in Social Sciences in the capital, and worked in the Solimões and Alto Xingu regions for six years, where she taught in indigenous schools. Founder of ISA, she served as editorial assistant and coordinator of the advisory program for indigenous organizations in the Rio Negro and Xingu regions, and served as deputy executive secretary from 1996 to 1998. Now, in her mature years, she pursues the new generation of ISA leaders from the comfortable position of advisor.

Father of Luisa and Maria Vitória, an agricultural engineer with a master's degree in Environmental Science, Rodrigo has supported nonprofit organizations throughout Brazil for 25 years. He contributed to the Y Ikatu Xingu Campaign, which aims to restore the springs and riverside forests of the Xingu River in Mato Grosso. Through the planting of seeds, the muvuca (a type of muvuca), he helped sow the seeds of a new way to restore relationships and ecosystems. Since late 2020, he has headed the ISA Executive Secretariat.

An anthropologist and demographer, Marta has worked with indigenous peoples for over 40 years. She began with indigenous school education and later specialized, a pioneering move in Brazil, in the demography and health of indigenous women. She focuses on action alongside research and places great importance on continuous learning processes. She is the mother of three beautiful adults and the grandmother of a beloved daughter.

Bachelor of Laws from the Centro Superior do Extremo Sul da Bahia (CESESB), Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (FACISA) and coordinator of the Socio-Environmental Policy and Law Program at the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA)

Anthropologist, graduated from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in 2007. He has worked at ISA since 2009 (Monitoring Program) and with the Yanomami (Rio Negro Program) since 2010.

A journalist with a master's degree in anthropology, he has worked on human rights, indigenous peoples, and traditional communities since 2009. When he arrived at ISA in 2017, he began contributing to communication on the economics of sociobiodiversity and food security through campaigns that connect people, life, and territory. He is currently ISA's communications coordinator.

Márcio Santilli is a philosopher and founding member of ISA. He is the author of the book Subverting Grammar and Other Socio-Environmental Chronicles. He was a federal deputy for the PMDB (Brazilian Democratic Movement Party) (1983-1987) and president of Funai (Funai) from 1995 to 1996.

An anthropologist, he has worked at ISA since 2010 (Monitoring Program) and with quilombolas in the Ribeira Valley since 2014 (Ribeira Valley Program). He works to develop the forest economy and territorial management with quilombolas in the Ribeira Valley, focusing on topics such as formalization of agreements, agrobiodiversity marketing strategies, and public food policies. He currently coordinates the Ribeira Valley Program.