Ana Paula Barreto

Ana Paula Barreto

Ana Paula Barreto

Ana Paula Barreto (she/hers) is a Program Director for AfroResistance in New York. She is a researcher on migration, global health and inequalities with special focus on women and girls of color. Ana has more than ten years of experience as human rights professional, working in the Americas and Africa. Ana is one of the recipients of the 2018 United Nations Fellowship for People of African descent due to her work on police brutality and the role of media to legitimate violence against racialized groups. She is the co-founder of Projeto 111, a project that teaches young people in the favelas how to use media tools to tell their own stories and disrupt the status quo through storytelling and the co-founder of the Black Brazilian Women Collective, the first Black collective formed by Black Brazilians in the United States.

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