In our Own Voices: Community-led Research on Police Violence in Brazil

This event will be held in Portuguese. Online simultaneous translation will be available for those who bring their own earphones.

Join us for a presentation of the participatory action research project, “Voices of Pain, Struggle, and Resistance of Mothers of Victims of State Violence in Brazil”. The project is a collaborative initiative led by researchers at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), and Mothers of May, a collective of mothers of victims of police killings in Brazil.

Speakers: Raiane Assumpção, Professor and President of the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP); Débora Maria da Silva, Coordinator and Co-founder, Mothers of May Movement; Edna Carla Souza Cavalcante, Coordinator, Mothers of the Periphery; Nívia do Carmo Raposo, Movement of Mothers and Families of Victims of State Violence; Rute Fiuza, Mothers of May of the Northeast; Aline Rocco, Researcher, Center for Forensic Anthropology and Archeology; Valéria Oliveira, Researcher, Center for Forensic Anthropology and Archeology.

Moderated by Yanilda González, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.