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DJAMILA RIBEIRO holds a degree in Philosophy and a master’s degree in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of Feminismos Plurais, which includes the Feminismos Plurais Space, the Feminismos Plurais online platform, and the Sueli Carneiro editorial label, which publishes the Feminismos Plurais book collection.

She is the author of the books Lugar de Fala (Jandaíra/Feminismos Plurais), Quem tem medo do Feminismo Negro?, Pequeno Manual Antirracista, and Cartas para minha avó (Companhia das Letras), as well as Diálogos Transatlânticos (Editions Anacaona), which have been translated into several languages. She is also a guest professor at New York University (NYU) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).

Since 2022, she has been a member of the Paulista Academy of Letters, occupying chair No. 28, and serves as a board member for the Padre Anchieta Foundation, the Pinacoteca of São Paulo, and the University of São Paulo’s Fund for students racial and gender equity. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and served as the Deputy Secretary for Human Rights of São Paulo in 2016. She was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2019 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was recognized by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.

In 2020, she won the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, in the Humanities category for Pequeno Manual Antirracista. In 2021, she became the first Brazilian in history to be honored by the BET Awards, granted by the African American community in the United States. In 2023, she received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights.

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DR. IBRAM X. KENDI is a National Book Award-winning author of fifteen books for adults and children, including nine New York Times bestsellers—five of which were #1 New York Times bestsellers. Dr. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News racial justice contributor.

Dr. Kendi is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, making him the youngest author to win that award. He also authored the international bestseller, How to Be an Antiracist, which was described in the New York Times as “the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.” Dr. Kendi’s other bestsellers include How to Raise an Antiracist; Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, co-edited with Keisha Blain; How to Be a (Young) Antiracist, co-authored with Nic Stone; Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby, illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020, Time magazine named Dr. Kendi one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world. He was awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship, popularly known as the Genius Grant.

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