Christiane Gomes is a journalist with a master’s degree in Communication and Culture from the University of São Paulo, where she researched political and community theater experiences in Brazil and Colombia. She has 20 years’ experience working with social movements (such as the MST), civil society organizations and black and marginalized collectives. A black feminist activist, she works with Brazilian black women’s organizations, especially those located in the northeast and southeast of Brazil. She works as a project coordinator for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, where she closely monitors initiatives and produces publications on issues related to the black women’s movement (in civil society and institutionally) and the black population. Topics such as environmental racism, black women and democracy and the production of knowledge and memory of the Brazilian black population are highlights. In the eight years she has been working at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, she has coordinated the production of around 15 publications with around 30.000 copies distributed free of charge. A researcher into the choreographic languages of the black diaspora, she works as a dancer and choreographer for the Ilú Obá de Min Afro-Female Group, where she is one of its main leaders. She is the mother of 6-year-old Serena Odara.