Ana Gretel Echazú Böschemeier is an Assistant Professor at UFRN and as a scientific assessor at the Ministry of Racial Equality. She has received recognition from UNESCO-Untref and TWAS-UNESCO Fellowship. She has written, translated, and published numerous reviews, essays, scientific articles and poems in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Peti Mama Gomes is an Assistant Professor at UFC-UNILAB. Her research focuses on political anthropology, gender, Diaspora, power, epistemologies, and human rights. She has worked as a TV journalist in Guinea-Bissau and is an active member of the International Network of African Women (RIMA-Unilab). She is currently collaborating on the University Community Project 'Teia' at UFPA, Brazil.