Sônia Guajajara

Sônia Bone Guajajara
Personal details
Born (1974-03-06) March 6, 1974
Maranhão, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian

Sônia Bone Guajajara, OMC (born 6 March 1974 in Maranhão) is a Brazilian environmental and indigenous activist of the Guajajara people.

She was born in a village in the Amazonian rain forest in Maranhão state.[1] She studied at an agricultural college in Minas Gerais and continued with studies in education at the Federal University of Maranhão.[2]

She is a Socialism and Liberty Party candidate for the vice-presidency of Brazil, the first indigenous person to run for that position, with Guilherme Boulos running for president.[3][1] She has organized a number of major demonstrations in support of indigenous rights in Brazil and played an important role in facilitating a meeting of indigenous leaders with the President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, in 2013.[4]

Guajajara is the leader of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil), which represents more than 300 indigenous ethnic groups in Brazil.[1]

In 2015, she was named to the Brazilian Ordem do Mérito Cultural. She was also awarded a medal by Maranhão state.[1]

She was invited onstage by Alicia Keys during Rock in Rio 2017, speaking over Keys' song "Kill Your Mama".[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sônia Guajajara". Green Cross International.
  2. 1 2 "Coordenadora da APIB, indígena Sonia Guajajara é cotada como vice de Boulos". Combate Racismo Ambiental (in Portuguese).
  3. ↑ "Conheça Sônia Guajajara, primeira indígena em uma pré-candidatura presidencial" (in Portuguese). Partido Socialismo e Liberdade.
  4. ↑ "Sônia Guajajara" (in French). Association québécoise des organismes de coopération internationale.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Jorge Paz		 PSOL nominee for Vice President of Brazil
2018		 Most recent
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