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Tetê de Alencar was born in the city of Iguatu in the state of Ceará and has lived in Great Britain for almost 29 years.   She has a master and a bachelor in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins and Liverpool John Moores University.  Tetê participated in various national and international exhibitions and worked as co-curator in various projects. 

Andreza is the director of the Brazilian Studies Programme and Senior Lecturer at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Her work is mainly concerned with local governments and participatory policies. She is the author or editor of three books focusing on cities in the global south.

Francesc Badia i Dalmases is a Mexican journalist, film producer, and the founder and director of democraciaAbierta, Latin American section of openDemocracy.net London. Francesc is also an author and a regular contributor to international newspapers, a Pulitzer Center multiple grantee and was awarded the 2020 Gabo Prize for his work in the Amazon.

Christine was the eleventh General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, a trade union representing qualified teachers across England and Wales. She is the Vice Chair of the pressure group Unite Against Fascism. She has sat in the House of Lords since November 2019. 

Chico is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, and a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He combines approaches from the natural and social sciences to study how information is organised, used, and misused. He is also a science communicator, having written for Science, HuffPost Brasil, and others. He also produces YouTube videos.

Jeremy Corbyn served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020. The MP for Islington North since 1983 now sits in Parliament as an independent. He is a widely recognised target of hate and smear campaigns in the UK.

Priscila Currie works as a paramedic for the NHS in London. She attends time critical emergencies.  She graduated in Paramedic Science from St George's University of London in 2014. She is the   founder of the #derrubeasfakenews campaign, a group of doctors, scientists and health experts who fight fake news.   

Débora is an anthropologist and law professor at the University of Brasilia, and a co-founder and researcher at Anis: Institute for Bioethics. She is also a researcher, writer and documentary filmmaker. Her research projects focus on bioethics, feminism, human rights and health. She currently resides in New York.

Victor is an Anglo-Brazilian journalist and filmmaker. He is the founder and director of the DMovies, the portal for thought-provoking cinema. He co-directed the documentary The Coup d'Etat Factory, about the role of media manipulation and fake news in the collapse of Brazilian democracy and rise of Neo-fascism.

Arthur Galamba is a lecturer in science education at King’s College London. He is the deputy director of King’s Brazil Institute and leads the STEM Education Hub. He is interested in developing a pedagogy for democracy, which includes decolonising and anti-fascist education.   

Dr Haira Gandolfi is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Education – University of Cambridge. Her teaching and research interests are Science Education, Decolonial Curricula and Pedagogies, Science & Technology Studies, and Teachers’ Work and Professional Development.

Valnei is a Brazilian journalist and filmmaker. He currently works as editor researcher at Ipsos Mori, where he focuses on ethnographic  ethnographic film. He co-directed the documentary The Coup d’Etat Factory, about media bias and fake news in the collapse of Brazilian democracy.

Professor Susan Robertson is the head of the Faculty of Education at University of Cambridge and went on to hold academic posts at the University of Auckland, University of Bristol. She sits on the ESRC’s funding council and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Globalisation, Societies and Education.

Wagner is a performer, choreographer and writer born in Brazil and based in Paris. He became the target of an extensive hate campaign following his performance La Bête in 2017, at the Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo. He problematises the boundaries between body and object, tradition and singularity.

Márcia is a Brazilian artist based in London. She studied at Parque Lage Art College in Rio de Janeiro. and exhibited in Germany, USA, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, South Korea, England and Brazil. She is represented by Mercedes Viegas Gallery in Rio de Janeiro.

Márcia is a philosopher, plastic artist and writer. She is currently living under exile in Paris, and works as a professor at the University Paris 8. She has written extensively about the rise of fascism and fake news in Brazil. She authored the book The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism, published in 2021.     

Jean is a scholar in Political Science at the University of Barcelona, where he researches the contagion by fake news and the rise of authoritarian governments. Award-winning journalist, he writes about civil rights and liberties. He served two consecutive terms as federal deputy in Brazil.