Aline Ngrenhtabare Lopes Kayapó & Edson Bepkro Kayapó

Aline Ngrenhtabare Lopes Kayapó belongs to the Mebengokre people and is a descendant of the Aymaras of Peru. She is a writer, an indigenous scholar, and an activist in the national indigenous movement and the indigenous movement of women, ceramists, artisans, and vendors of Acai. She is adjunct coordinator of the Mapping Knowledges Institute, which is connected to the Nucleus of Amazonian Advanced Studies-UFPA, participating in the Human Rights section. Aline is founder of Wayrakunas, an ancestral-philosophical network that works on indigenous women’s resistance in Brazil. She studies Law and collaborates with GRUMIN, a collective of native women.

Edson Bepkro Kayapó belongs to the Mebengokre people. He was born in Amapa State (Amazonia). He is an activist of the indigenous and environmentalist movements, a professor in the bachelor’s program in Indigenous Interculturality at the Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA), and a professor in the graduate program in Teaching and Ethnic-Racial Relations at the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia (PPGER/UFSB). Edson researches indigenous and Amazonian topics. As a writer, he has been awarded by UNESCO and the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infanto-Juvenil. His books include Projetos e presepadas de um curumim na Amazônia (Positivo 2016) and Um estranho Espadarte na aldeia (Primata 2021).