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Raquel Lima is a poet, arts educator, performer, essayist, and transdisciplinary artist. She holds a degree in Artistic Studies - Performing Arts and is a PhD candidate in Postcolonial Studies, with a particular interest in orality, intergenerational memory, Afro-diasporic movements, and contemporary practices of escapism, abstraction, and healing. She has presented her academic and artistic work in several countries, notably at the Venice and São Paulo Biennials.

Marcos Silva holds a PhD in Social Psychology from PUC-SP and a postdoctorate from CES-UC. He is a collaborating professor at the College of Letters and Sciences - Araraquara Campus (Unesp/Brazil); Higher School of Education of Coimbra; University of Brasília, in the project ‘The presence of women in legal education in Brazil from a gender and race perspective (2001-2021)’ (UnB/CNPq).

Carlos Nolasco is a sociologist and associate researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, where he is part of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights research group. He holds a PhD in Sociology and a Master's degree in Development Sociology. He is a member of the Permanent Observatory for Justice and researches Fundamental Rights, Sociology of Sport and Professions, Labour Migration and Access to Law.

Jessica Bruno is a historian and sociologist who holds a master’s degree in Education from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and a degree in History from the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). She is a specialist in post-colonialisms, researching the impacts of racism in higher education and is a fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

Joana Sousa Ribeiro is a sociologist whose research interests focus on issues related to the socio-professional mobility of migrants and refugees, policies for the admission and inclusion of migrants, migration and health, longitudinal studies, intercultural studies, and citizenship. She is a co-founder and co-coordinator of ITM - Interthematic Group on Migrations, and a member of the CES Trauma Observatory (OT).