Djamila Ribeiro

Djamila Ribeiro has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of the Plural Feminisms Collection and founder and president of the Plural Feminisms Institute. Ribeiro is a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo and an author who has sold more than 1 million copies; she was formerly a professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and also a visiting professor at New York University. Ribeiro is the first Brazilian to be invited by MIT as part of the MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars Program. An award-winning intellectual, she was named by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world and was a laureate of the Franco-German Human Rights Prize.