Raíla Alves is a Brazilian Black lesbian activist, researcher and lawyer. She has an undergraduate degree in Law by the University Center of Brasilia (UniCEUB) and a Master’s degree in Social Sciences by the Department of Latin-American Studies of the University of Brasilia (ELA/UnB). In 2017, she attended as a lecturer the First European Lesbian Conference, held in Viena, Austria, where she spoke about Latin-American Black lesbians. Her researches focus on decolonial studies, gender, race and sexualities. In her thesis, for her Master’s degree, she researched the elaboration of identities of Black lesbian women inserted in the lesbian and black social movements in Brasilia. She currently works for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA - Brazil) providing technical support in the programmatic areas of gender, race and ethnicity and sexual and reproductive health. As a lawyer, her work focus on providing legal assistance to women victims of gender-based violence, racism, homophobia and other human rights violations.