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Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) is the Director of Programs for AfroResistance in New York. She has a masters of Arts in International affairs and she is a fellow of the United Nations Fellowship Program for People of African descent. Ana is an activist and researcher on race, gender, global health and inequalities with special focus on Black women and girls.
She has more than fifteen years of experience as a human rights professional, working in several counties of the Americas and Africa, doing innovative work on popular education, political participation, global health and reproductive justice. In 2018, she developed a project analyzing the intersection between economic empowerment and health outcomes of women and children in Ethiopia. She is the curator of the first “Black Brazilian Film Festival” in the African continent, organized in partnership with the United Nations and the Brazilian embassy in Addis Ababa in 2018.
She is also the co-founder of Projeto 111, a project that teaches young people in the favelas of Brazil how to use media tools to tell their own stories and disrupt police brutality through storytelling as well as the co-founder of Kilomba collective, the first Black Brazilian women collectie in the United States.
