Bio notes

Juscelino Dourado - Environmental manager, Dourado studied Chemistry at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and at the Lomonosov University (Moscow, Russia); Business Administration and Environmental Management at the University of São Paulo (USP); he was head of public and private companies, among which he served as Head of the Finance Minister's Office and as Managing Director of Estre Ambiental. He is Executive Director of Estre Institute and operates in the areas of education and environmental management. Co-author and organiser of the following books: Reflexão e práticas em educação ambiental: discutindo o consumo e a geração de resíduos and Resíduos sólidos no Brasil: oportunidades e desafios da Lei Federal no 12.305.5. He is founder and director of the Brazilian Fund for Environmental Education (Funbea) and has a blog on environmental management (www.juscelinodourado.com.br).

Fernanda Belizário - PhD candidate in Post Colonialisms and Global Citizenship at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Belizário holds a MA in Communication and Consumer Practices by the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in Sao Paulo and a BA in Social Sciences and Social Communication at the University of São Paulo. She has worked as a manager in public and private institutions in the fields of education and communication and was a university professor in Brazil. She was the Estre Institute Education Manager until 2013.

Alciana Paulino - Social scientist, educator, writer and manager of education, culture and diversity projects. A graduate of the University of São Paulo, she fell in love with environmental education when she started working in the Estre Institute, in 2012. Today, she is Manager of Education at the Institute and editor and columnist of the Journal Geni (http://revistageni.org).

Activity within the  Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group, the  Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group  and the Doctoral Programme "Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship"