About us

Talita is Executive Director of BONDE (formerly NOSSAS), a researcher in technopolitics and a master’s student at UFRJ. For over a decade, she has worked at the intersection of technology and human rights in Brazil, including initiatives such as Mapa do Acolhimento, Amazônia de Pé, Observatório das Florestas Públicas, Eleição do Ano, Vote pelo Clima and Defesa Climática Popular.

Roberto is an urbanist, researcher and activist in the fields of cities, politics and climate. He holds a PhD from USP, is a professor at UFMG and was one of the founders of Piseagrama magazine. He has been involved in movements such as Tarifa Zero BH, Muitas and Ocupa Política. He is a contributor to piauí magazine and the author of A Razão dos Centavos (Zahar, 2023), a finalist for the Jabuti Prize. He is currently co-executive director of BONDE.

Activist, militant and socio-environmental defender, executive president of the Chico Mendes Committee. Ashoka Fellow and board member of WWF-Brasil, the Chico Mendes Memorial and the Institute for Amazonian Studies.

Enrica is a feminist and a mother. She was born in Rio de Janeiro but lived, studied and worked in Belgium, South Africa and Japan. She holds a degree in Political Science from The New School, with a specialization in Global Studies and History, and is a master’s student in Conflict Resolution and Development at the UN-mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. She was part of NOSSAS’s leadership team for 9 years and today leads Mapa do Acolhimento, an initiative that originated in the organization and became an independent entity in 2023.

Free software and information democratization activist since the 1990s. She was a product manager at Twitter. She is executive director of the Tor Project and sits on the boards of EDRi and The Engine Room.

Founder of the Institute for Urbanism and Metropolitan Studies (URBEM). He was a diplomat and sits on the boards of institutions such as MIT, OSESP, Arq.Futuro and CEBRI, as well as the city councils of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

Rafael is a sociologist from PUC-SP, with a master’s degree and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Brasília (UnB). With 17 years of experience in social and environmental policy, he has worked in civil society, the Chamber of Deputies, the private sector and philanthropy. Rafael is currently one of the leaders of Greenpeace International, where he is responsible for the Social and Economic program, contributing to the promotion of social and environmental justice on a global scale.

Silvana Bahia is a multidisciplinary professional working in the fields of technology, culture, social innovation and education. Co-executive director of Olabi, an organization dedicated to diversifying the technology and innovation scene in Brazil. She is a columnist, a researcher and holds a master’s degree in Culture and Territorialities from UFF. Her career spans both the defense of human rights and the promotion of digital and educational inclusion. In 2023 she published the book “Pode um robô ser racista?” (Can a robot be racist?). Considered one of the 100 most important innovative people in the world by The Future Laboratory in England, she received the Internet Governance Highlights award from the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.

Alessandra is a specialist in mass communication and large-scale mobilization, with extensive experience in grassroots mobilization, people organizing, and the development of impact products for television and film. She is currently Executive Director of Peri, a new media company based in Brazil. Before that, she co-founded NOSSAS, where she was Executive Director for 12 years. She also created and directed, for 7 seasons, the political satire show Greg News with Gregório Duvivier, on HBO. Alessandra directed several opinion videos for The New York Times and is the lead producer of two feature-length documentaries directed by Petra Costa, the latest of which was nominated for an Oscar. Alessandra sits on the Board of Directors of three organizations with a strong focus on cultural strategy and narratives: the Luminate Foundation, the Meliore Foundation, and the newly created Institute of Culture, Communication and Impact (ICCI). She is also a member of the Social Impact Committee of Purpose, a global movement-building agency based in New York, and of the Advisory Board of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University, where she teaches courses on organizing strategies and mass communication. After the 2022 elections, Alessandra was invited to President Lula’s transition team as one of the coordinators of the working group linked to the Ministry of Communications. Her opinion articles have been published by The New York Times, Libération, El PAÍS, Folha de S. Paulo, Stanford Social Innovation Review and the BBC. Alessandra is a Fellow of the Obama Foundation and, in 2022, received the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Innovation.

Miguel Lago is a co-founder of Meu Rio and NOSSAS, and was its chief executive officer until 2019, when he became executive director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies (IEPS). Miguel is also a political scientist, and has developed and taught master’s courses on the intersection of democracy, health and technology at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (2018-2022), at Sciences Po Paris (2017-2018) and at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University (since 2023). Active in public debate, Miguel has published articles in several major newspapers, such as The New York Times, Le Monde, El País and piauí magazine. He is also co-author of the books “Linguagem da Destruição” and “Do que falamos quando falamos de Populismo” (Companhia das Letras), and of “Construção de um Estado para o Século XXI”. In 2019, he was named one of the World’s 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.