Glenda Cristina Valim de Melo / José Sena / Thais Borges

Glenda Cristina Valim de Melo – She is a professor in the Graduate Program in Social Memory at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) and in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a Postdoctoral degree in Applied Linguistics from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her recent research is focused on the performativity of race and intersectionalities in online/offline contexts, and she coordinates the research group on Performativities, Race, and Intersectionalities (PRINT/CNPq). She is currently a member of the Board of the Association of Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Investigators – AINALC, and is involved in working groups on affirmative action policies, as well as participating in the heteroidentification committee at UNIRIO.

José Sena – An antiracist educator aligned with Decolonial and Anticolonial Black Thought, holding a doctorate in Applied Linguistics from UFRJ/CNPq, with a doctoral internship completed at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra/Portugal (CES/UC/CNPq). A postdoctoral fellow in Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations at the Emilio Goeldi Museum (MPEG/MCTI), currently engaged in a postdoctoral fellowship at UNIRIO’s Graduate Program in Social Memory (FAPERJ). Currently an accredited professor in the Graduate Program in Sociocultural Diversity at the Goeldi Museum. His research interests are centered around the intersections of language, memory, and race, with a focus on political and educational processes (literacies) within the realms of gender, sexualities, and antiracism.

Thaís Borges – PhD in LANGUAGE STUDIES/LETTERS from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro with a CNPq scholarship. Holds a master’s degree in the same field (2017) and a specialization in English Language (2014), both from the mentioned institution. Research interests are in the field of Applied Linguistics, focusing on narrative analysis, discourse evaluation, discursive performativity, and social, identity, and affective practices, with a transdisciplinary, decolonial, and intersectional perspective. With extensive experience in teaching/learning English as a foreign language, currently a professor in the Postgraduate Program – Specialization in English Language, a course linked to the Department of Letters at PUC-Rio and offered by the Central Coordination of Extension (CCE).

Jacqueline Gomes

Jacqueline Gomes – Associate Professor at the Federal Fluminense University. Leader of the research group “Observatory on Inclusion in Education and Human Rights” (https://www.instagram.com/observatorio.uff/). Full Professor in the Graduate Program in Teaching at the Federal Fluminense University. She has completed post-doctoral research through PPGBIOS, being a PNPD/CAPES fellow (2012-2013), at UFRRJ (2022), and at the University of Salamanca (2023). Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2011). Master’s in Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2006). Bachelor of Law from the Federal Fluminense University (2005), Bachelor of Philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2003), and licensed in Philosophy from the Catholic University of Brasília (2008). She is a member of the International Association for Inclusion, Interculturality, and Pedagogical Innovation (AIIIIPe). Academically, she works in the following areas: theories of justice; critical theory of human rights; inclusion in education; jusphilosophical perspectives on disabilities; teaching and diagnostics, popular education, and health.

Raquel Souza de Oliveira / Erika Coachman

Raquel Souza de Oliveira – Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Applied Linguistics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she is a Full Professor in Basic, Technical, and Technological Education at the University of Rio de Janeiro’s College of Applied Studies.