Effective members

• Adriana Ramos - She has been an advisor to ISA since 1995. She studied social communication and has worked in the field of socio-environmental public policies for over 25 years. She represented the Brazilian Forum of NGOs on the Amazon Fund Steering Committee from 2008 to 2013 and was a member of the Executive Board of the Brazilian Association of NGOs (Abong). Since 2023, she has shared the ISA executive secretariat with Rodrigo
  Gravina Prates Junqueira.
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• Ailton krenak - An internationally renowned indigenous leader, he was one of the founders of the Union of Indigenous Nations (UNI), was a member of the Alliance of Forest Peoples and founded the Indigenous Culture Center, to which he remains dedicated to this day.
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• Alessandra Korap Silva -
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• Aloisio Cabalzar Anthropologist with a degree in Social Sciences and a Master's in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo. He has worked in the Tiquié River since 1991 and joined ISA in 1996. He worked on the demarcation of the five Indigenous Lands of the Upper Rio Negro in 1997 and on the creation of the database of the Upper and Middle Rio Negro communities. In Tiquié, he has coordinated and collaborated on several projects related to environmental management, joint research with Indigenous experts and youth, and the ecological and sociocultural calendar. He organizes publications based on the projects developed, one of which, "Manejo do Mundo," received the Jabuti Award in 2011.
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• Aurelio Rios - In short, I am Brazilian, born in Minas Gerais, I hold the position of Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, and I currently serve as Federal Attorney for the Defense of Citizens.
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• Benedito Alves da Silva - Ditão, as he is called, is an important and old leader of the quilombo of Ivaporunduva, in the city of Eldorado, in the Ribeira Valley (SP).
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• Biviany Rojas Garzón Political scientist, lawyer, and Master of Social Sciences from the University of Brasília. She has worked in the Amazon with Indigenous peoples and other forest communities since 1998, specializing in the right to free, prior, and informed consultation and consent, environmental licensing, and public participation in major infrastructure projects. She was the coordinator of the Xingu Program at the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA). Among other publications, she organized the book "Opportunities and Challenges for the Implementation of ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Brazil" (2009) and the dossier "Belo Monte - There are No Conditions for an Operating License" (2015). She is also a co-author of the books "The Right to Consultation and Consent of Indigenous Peoples, Quilombolas, and Traditional Communities" (2016) and "Autonomous Consultation and Consent Protocols: Guidance Guide" (2019).
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• Caio Luiz Carneiro Magri - A sociologist from the University of São Paulo (USP), he is the Executive Manager of Public Policies at the Ethos Institute of Business and Social Responsibility. He is a member of the Nossa São Paulo Movement and represents the Ethos Institute at the Sustainable Amazon Forum.
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• Christina Adams - Associate Professor at the School of Arts, Sciences, and Humanities (EACH-USP) and the Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE-USP), she is a researcher in Human Ecology and has been investigating agricultural systems and forest livelihoods for over 25 years. She participates in the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the Brazilian Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
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• Debora Duprat - She joined the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office on October 16, 1987, and in early 1989, was appointed by the Attorney General to join a newly established Indigenous Rights Commission. Along with Eugênio Aragão, she filed the first lawsuit for the demarcation of post-1988 Indigenous land (Yanomami). In the 1990s, she filed numerous public civil lawsuits, including those for the banning of DDT, the registration of pesticides, the refinancing of sugar mill debts, and the release of grains by CONAB (National Institute of Social Security). She filed the first lawsuit seeking national effects of the ruling (a 147% adjustment to INSS pensions). Since 1997, she has been a member of the 6th Coordination and Review Chamber of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (Indigenous Peoples and Traditional Communities), leading its coordination from 2004 to 2016. She served as interim Attorney General of the Republic, having proposed, in less than 20 days, more than 30 actions involving concentrated and abstract constitutional review, across a wide range of areas. From 2009 to 2013, she served as Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, serving as a substitute at the Federal Supreme Court and the National Council of the Public Prosecutor's Office, and occasionally at the National Council of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice. In 2011, several civil society organizations informally nominated her for the position of Justice of the Supreme Court. From May 2016 to May 2020, she headed the Federal Prosecutor's Office for Citizens' Rights, the highest-ranking body of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office that performs ombudsman functions. He retired from the MPF in May 2020.
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• Deborah de Magalhães Lima - Graduated in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1980) and earned a master's and doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (1982-1992). Associate Professor IV at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, she works primarily on issues related to the Anthropology of Traditional Populations, generally in the Amazon and focusing on the following themes: socio-environmentalism, sustainable use conservation units, the Mamirauá and Amanã Reserves, and the Solimões River floodplain. In Minas Gerais, she coordinates the Center for Studies on Quilombola and Traditional Populations - NuQ, at UFMG, with which she carried out several studies with Afro-descendant groups, especially quilombos, and a Calon group in the city of Belo Horizonte. She was president of the ISA of
  2019 the 2023.
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• Fernando Alphen - Chief Marketing Officer at Lua.net. Bachelor's and postgraduate degrees in Business Administration from FGV and History from USP. He was Creative Director and Planning Director at F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, and Chief Strategy Officer at J.Walter Thompson.
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• Fernando Mathias Batista - Bachelor of Laws from PUC São Paulo, worked at ISA for ten years and is currently an advisor to the organization Norwegian Church Aid – NCA (Church Aid).
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• Francisco de Assis Port of Oliveira -
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• Gisela Moreau She holds a degree in dance and visual arts from PUC (Pacific Catholic University of São Paulo). She works as a coordination assistant at the São Paulo Environmental Education Center. She is a founding member of the Sambatá Music and Culture Association and the Common Good Organization (OSCIP). She is the director of Crisantempo Produções Artísticas and coordinates the Crisantempo Socio-Environmental Film Club. She has been a member of ISA since 2009 and has supported the activities of the Xingu Program and the Rio Negro Program in Roraima, in addition to hosting the institute's activities in its cultural spaces in São Paulo.
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• Jose Eli da Veiga - With a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris, he is a Senior Professor at the Institute of Energy and Environment at the University of São Paulo. Sustainable development has been a central concern of his for four decades, since his time at the French National Institute of Agricultural Research in the early 1970s. A columnist for the newspaper Valor Econômico and the magazine Página22, he has published 21 books.
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• Jurandir Mendes Craveiro Jr. For 35 years, he has been one of Brazil's leading brand and communications planning professionals. He was Head of Planning for JWT in Latin America in the 1990s, planning brands for Unilever, Nestlé, Ford, Credicard, Shell, Brasil Telecom, and TIM. In the following decade, he co-founded the communications agency NBS (http://nobullshit.com.br) and planned the brand case for mobile operator Oi, from its conception and launch to its market expansion over several years. He is also one of the founders, former director, and current vice president of the Planning Group in Brazil. Since 2010, he has been a Brand and Communications consultant and managing partner of i2 Ideias e Inventos Ltda.
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• Kelly Regina Santos da Silva - Social educator and researcher with expertise in anti-racist and gender justice social movements. Born in Recife, Pernambuco, she graduated in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Pernambuco (UNICAP), where she specialized in Human Rights. She earned a Master's degree in Development and Environment from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Her work experience focuses on non-governmental organizations and educational and research institutions in Recife and Rio de Janeiro, including the Wonder Woman Group (GMM), the Legal Advisory Office for Popular Organizations (GAJOP), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), and the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV). Her most recent work experience was at the Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos (FBDH), as part of the team of Advisors, from 2019 to June 2023, who methodologically followed part of the process of repairing the impacts resulting from the rupture of the Fundão dam (Mariana/MG) in the Doce River basin through legal action brought by the Federal Public Ministry (MPF).
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• Servant Lion - He is a journalist, having worked as editor and director in several publications, such as Folha de S.Paulo, Jornal da Tarde, Notícias Populares, Lance!, Placar and Diário de S.Paulo. He was the founder of the news website Último Segundo (www.ultimosegundo.com.br), from the iG portal. Between 2005 and 2009 he was press officer for the City of São Paulo. He is the author of, among other books, "The Battle of Sarajevo" (Scritta, 1994); "Journalism and Disinformation" (Senac, 2001), "Clean City" (Clic, 2006) and "How to Live in São Paulo Without a Car" (Santa Clara Ideias). He was the director of journalism at TV Cultura SP and is currently the international director of the channel, in London.
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• Manuela Carneiro da Cunha - PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), she is a full professor at the University of Chicago and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. She was president of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) and taught at Unicamp and the University of São Paulo. She has published nine books.
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• Marcelo Hercowitz -
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• Marcelo salazar He holds a degree in production engineering from UFSCar. He worked with raw materials for the cosmetics market at Rhodia SA, was a business manager at the Software Technology Institute, and an adventure tourism guide at Grade VI. He began working with riverside communities in the Amazon as a volunteer with the Amazon Riverside Population Support Center (NAPRA) in 2000, working on the Madeira River in Rondônia. He was a consultant for management plans for Conservation Units, council formation, and marketing support for Non-Timber Forest Products, and worked on ISA's Xingu Program in Altamira, Pará.
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• Marcos Wesley de Oliveira His theology training served as a gateway to the Indigenous world. After a stint among the Guarani Kaiowá, he worked with the Kanamari of the Middle Juruá River (AM) and later with the Yanomami, a people with whom he has been connected for over 20 years. His work primarily focuses on education, supporting Indigenous organizations, and strengthening cultural heritage. In recent years, he has also dedicated himself to projects related to Indigenous musical culture through the organization Som das Aldeias, having had the privilege of experiencing the music of more than 30 indigenous peoples from northern Brazil.
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• Maria Ines Zanchetta - She is a journalist. She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo and studied journalism at the Cásper Líbero School of Social Communication. She worked for 21 years at the Abril publishing house, working for publications such as Almanaque Abril and Superinteressante magazine, where she served as a reporter, editor, and executive editor. In the 1970s, she co-founded the feminist newspaper us womenDuring the difficult times of the military dictatorship, she advocated for women workers' rights to equal pay, daycare centers in the workplace, abortion rights, and against moral and sexual harassment in factories and offices. She worked in Communications at ISA from 2001 to 2022.
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• Mariana Moreau - Artist and economist researching Genetic Resources, Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing and Property Rights over Cultural Manifestations.
  Born in São Paulo, with origins in Bahia, she has 4 children.
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• Mario Monzoni - Academic Coordinator of the Master's course in Sustainability Management at FGV Management and coordinator of the Center for Sustainability Studies at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (GVCes).
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• Marta Maria Azevedo - Demographer and anthropologist, researcher at the Elza Berquó/NEPO Population Studies Center at UNICAMP and professor in the Graduate Program in Demography at IFCH/NEPO/UNICAMP. Member of the Advisory Board of UNFPA (UN Population Fund in Brazil) and coordinator of the Indigenous Peoples Demography Working Group of ABEP (Brazilian Association for Population Studies). She was coordinator of NEPO, president of the National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI), and consultant to the Ministries of Education and Health regarding the development and monitoring of public policies for indigenous peoples. In the field of Demography, she works primarily on the following topics: indigenous peoples, indigenous health and education, demography, and indigenous ethnology. He has worked on the production of demographic information on indigenous peoples, socio-environmental indicators of indigenous lands and with the Guarani peoples and the Alto Rio Negro/AM region, addressing the themes of education, spatial mobility, food security and access to public policies.
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• Marussia Whately Coordinator of the Alliance for Water collective. She coordinated the Imazon project in partnership with the Pará state government's Green Municipalities Program and CLUA (Climate and Land Use Alliance). In 2010, she coordinated, along with Pedro Leitão and Tasso Azevedo, the content production team for the Marina Silva/Guilherme Leal presidential campaign. She was executive coordinator of the Democracy and Sustainability Institute until September 2011. She is the organizer and author of several publications on water source protection, sanitation, and urban and peri-urban land management. She worked for 10 years at ISA, coordinating the São Paulo Water Sources program and the Keeping an Eye on Water Sources campaign. She holds a degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from Mackenzie University (1997), specializing in water resource management and urban environment (Unicamp/ABES, 1998).
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• Mauro Almeida - He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (UK), and is a retired professor at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), where he continues to teach courses and supervise research as a collaborator in the Master's and Doctoral programs in Social Anthropology. He coordinates research projects involving rubber tapper researchers at the Biodiversity Institute of the University of Floresta, in Acre.
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• Pablo Molloy - An agricultural engineer from ESALQ/USP, he serves as an executive for South America in independent laboratories specializing in testing, inspection, and certification for food traceability, identity, and quality, as well as environmental matrices. He holds postgraduate degrees in supply chain management and industrial organization from PENSA/USP, International Economic Negotiations from the San Tiago Dantas Interinstitutional Program at Unesp, Unicamp, and PUC-SP, and International Politics and Economics from UdeSA, University of San Andrés, Argentina. He is a Managing Partner of Fozs, through which he supports institutions in the development of sociobiodiversity programs and products.
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• Patricia Bustamante - Researcher at Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) since 1997. She studied agronomy and plant genetics. She works on agrobiodiversity conservation with Traditional Peoples and Communities. She represents Embrapa on the Steering Committee of the Safeguard Plan for the Traditional Agricultural System of Rio Negro/AM. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology. She is a member of the Advisory Committee (SAG) of the "Ingenious Systems of the World Agricultural Heritage" Program - GIAHS/SIPAM of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. She is currently responsible for the Coordination of Programs and Partnerships of the Technology Transfer Department at Embrapa.
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• Paulo Afonso Garcia Business administrator. Working in the environmental field since 1990. He was a planning manager at CETESB, advisor to Secretary Fabio Feldmann, president of the São Paulo Forestry Foundation, planning coordinator at the State Secretariat of the Environment, executive assistant to the state environmental education coordinator, and currently works at FECOP – the State Fund for Pollution Prevention and Control. He was a fiscal advisor to the 5 Elements Institute of the Democracy and Sustainability Institute and the ISA.
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• Paulo Junqueira - Psychologist specializing in child psychology and children and adolescents at social risk. He has worked in the Xingu Indigenous Park and Panará Indigenous Territory since 2000. An honorary member of the Kisêdjê Indigenous Association, he has worked at the Abrinq Foundation, the Ecoar Institute for Citizenship, and was president of the Cooperative of Professionals in Child, Adolescent, and Family Care, among others.
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• Percival Caropreso - An advertising professional, he worked for 30 years at McCann-Erickson in four different positions. For over 23 years, he has participated in communication projects to strengthen and develop the Third Sector in Brazil, both actively and voluntarily, as a citizen. As a professional, he is the founder of Setor 2 ½ – Strategic Planning Consulting in Social Responsibility and Sustainability for Companies and NGOs.
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• Raimunda Nonata Rodrigues -
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• Rafaela Eduarda Miranda Santos -
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• Raquel Pasinato - Biologist, socio-environmentalist, with a master's degree in agroecosystem ecology. She has worked in the Ribeira Valley since 2005, working with traditional peoples and communities, especially quilombolas. She advises quilombola communities and their organizations on local development projects and their interface with public policies. She is passionate about the Atlantic Forest and its sociobiodiversity.
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• Raul Telles do Valle - Bachelor of Law (1998 - University of São Paulo), lawyer, Master in Economic Law (2002 - University of São Paulo), former professor of Environmental Law in the Environmental Management course at the National Commercial Apprenticeship Service - SENAC, worked at ISA between 2000
  and 2014, in the Socio-Environmental Policy and Law Program on.
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• Rodrigo Junqueira He holds a degree in agricultural engineering from ESALQ/USP and a master's degree in Environmental Science from PROCAM/USP. He specializes in projects and initiatives for socio-environmental adaptation and sustainable production systems. He has worked with the Xingu Program since 2014, where he led the Y Ikatu Xingu Campaign, a shared socio-environmental responsibility campaign focused on protecting and restoring the springs and riparian forests of the Xingu River, which involves a variety of stakeholders. He also works with the Xingu Seed Network, an initiative to promote the forest, preserving it and generating income for indigenous peoples and family farmers.
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• Silvia de Melo Futada - The daughter of land-based families and displaced migrants, she belongs to the first urban generation and grew up in a multicultural context. She is an organizer, co-author, and has assisted in the production of several publications, technical notes, information systems, and websites. She has participated in various processes, forums, and councils in the environmental and quilombola, traditional, and indigenous rights field, notably the Scientific Panel for the Amazon (SPA) and the Traditional Territories Platform of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) and the National Council of Traditional Peoples and Communities. She has worked with popular cooperatives, settlements, and educational and restoration projects. Her work includes the IEMA/ES, managing natural resources and protected areas; and the ISA, integrating and coordinating the Protected Areas program and serving as an advisor to the Executive Secretariat. A biologist with a Master's in Ecology from the University of Campinas, she is currently pursuing her doctorate.
   
• Thiago de Souza Amparo - Professor at FGV Direito SP and FGV RI, teaching courses on human rights, international law, public policy, diversity, and discrimination. He is a lawyer with a bachelor's degree from PUC-SP, a master's degree in human rights (LLM) from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), and a doctorate from the same university.
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• washington novaes ((In Memoriam) - Bachelor of Laws from the University of São Paulo, journalist. He has worked as a reporter, editor, director, and columnist for several major Brazilian publications, including Folha de S. Paulo, O Estado de S. Paulo, Jornal do Brasil, Última Hora, Veja, and Visão. On television, he was editor-in-chief of Globo Repórter, editor of Jornal Nacional, and commentator for Globo Ecologia and news programs on the Bandeirantes and Manchete networks. He was a columnist for the newspapers O Estado de S. Paulo and O Popular (in Goiânia, where he lived), and a journalism consultant for TV Cultura, supervisor, and commentator for the programs Repórter Eco and Biodiversidade Debate.
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• Uvanderson Vitor da Silva