Hello 2026Take a look at our 2025 retrospective

Hello, 2026! 2025 was a year of struggle, transformation, and achievement. May there be more to come.

The year began with the development of a feminist and anti-racist storytelling methodology, built collectively by professionals from different countries across the ActionAid federation, in Johannesburg. A collective, in-depth, and strategic process that placed narrative at the service of social justice.

Still in the first half of the year, I took part in the 4th session of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent, in New York. There, we hosted three side events alongside the Forum, culminating in a guided walk through Harlem, a symbolic territory of memory, resistance, and Black political production.

In June, I attended the ActionAid Country Directors’ Meeting in Seville. During the same week, we marched for women’s rights, for LGBTQIA+ rights, and for an end to the war in Gaza. All together and intertwined, because wars, territorial disputes, racism, and sexism share the same root: patriarchy as a system of power.

During this same period, I also had the joy of moderating the panel “Vital Energy: mobilizing Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous civilizational values in education” at the LED Festival, held at the Rio Art Museum, at the invitation of dear friends from Fundação Roberto Marinho and Canal Futura.

October brought one of the most special trips of the year: London. There, we carried out political advocacy activities and launched the exhibition Women by Women, which portrayed the life of Kleydianne, a long-standing ActionAid partner, forest defender, and babaçu coconut breaker. A deeply political and affective experience.

I had the honor of co-authoring, alongside Maria Corrêa e Castro, the article “Affectivity and Afro-Brazilian Civilizational Values in the project A Cor da Cultura,” published in Cadernos Afro Memória.

At the end of the year, we experienced two emblematic and strategically complementary moments: COP 30 and the March of Black Women for Bem Viver. Distinct spaces, yet guided by the same logic: there is no solution to the climate crisis without guaranteeing land rights, historical reparation, and justice for Black women, Indigenous women, and traditional peoples.

Concluding the travels of 2025, I took part in the discussions at the OHCHR, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, bringing forward the debate on education as a fundamental human right. Because democracy, social justice, and the future begin with the right to learn, to exist, and to remain.