FULL ADMISSION WITH DIGNITY - a conversation about the Brazilian context and movements for reparations

A conversation exploring the unique history of Brazil,
the nation with the most people of African descent outside of the
African continent, and how the movement for reparations and
healing is a continual struggle and challenge.


-The conversation will be led by Alabê Nunjara
Silva, born in Rio de Janeiro and currently lives in
Bahia. Alabê plays the harp and clarinet, sang in operas and
choirs, was an athlete, played capoeira, fought, and played the
drums in samba schools. He served in the Army and the Navy,
studied Mathematics at the Federal University Fluminense (UFF),
and has a Master's degree in Political Science from the Federal
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO). He also has a
Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and also started studying for
his Masters' in International Relations at the Federal
University of Bahia (UFBA). He has done research on  Africa,
Defense, and Foreign Policy. He did a study exchange in the
Caribbean, interned at the UN and the French Embassy, ​​organized
a movement for action toward racial affirmations and quotas at
UFRJ, and was the coordinator in a national movement for student
assistance and housing. He is currently part of the Foundation's
Talent Bridge programme Lemann / Opportunity USA to pursue
graduate studies in the United States of America and is a
diplomacy award fellow from the Affirmative Action Programme of
the Rio Branco Institute in Brazil.


Eustáquio Lawa or Eustáquio José Rodrigues, was
born in Ponte Nova, Minas Gerais, Brazil. An electrical engineer
(UFMG, 1970) and Psychologist (UERJ, 1980), he worked, from 1971
to 1991in large electric power companies in Brazil and abroad.
From 1995, after a Masters’ degree in Public Administration from
Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV, he joined the Public service,
where he retired. He has been an activist in the Black Movement
since 1977 where he was a member of the Black Cultures Research
Institute - IPCN and of the Negrícia poetry group. He chaired the
Antiapartheid Committee of Brazil and currently, he is a
consultant for the National Institute of the Peoples - INP in the
fight for Reparations for descendants of enslaved African
peoples.


Marize Conceição de Jesus is a History Teacher
at Elementary and High School in the public school system in
the state of Rio de Janeiro and the municipality of Nova
Iguaçu/Rio de Janeiro. She is currently a Ph.D.
candidate in Social History at the PPGHS-FFP
programme at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. She
holds a Master in Education from the Universidade
Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro and did her research
in Education and Ethnic-Racial Diversity and specialised in
the History of Brazil. She is an Institutional Coordinator and
one of the founders of - GESTAR, a Racial Study and Action
Group, created in Nova Iguaçu in 2005; she was a Counselor
of Comdedine-NI (Municipal Council for the Defense of the Rights
of the Negro de Nova Iguaçu) between (2005-2017); was a
member of the Executive Commission of the Permanent Forum on
Ethnic Racial Education and Diversity of the State of Rio de
Janeiro (2009-2016); was a pedagogical advisor in the areas
of CEPAENI History and Geography. She works with and for the
implementation of the 10.639/03 and 11.645/08
Laws (laws mandating the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and
Indigenous history and culture nationally) and with Education for
Ethnic Racial Relations at Schools. She interacts with the
Carioca Network of Black Ethnoeducators.