My Introduction Post | Virgínia Gandres | Golden Girl

Hi everyone, welcome to my life's journey! I was born in 1968 at Casa de Portugal. I am from Rio de Janeiro. Archaeologist, writer, producer and environmentalist.

I lived in NYC from 1988 to 1992 and studied Video & Production at the School of Visual Arts – SVA.

At that time, I started working with the Alliance of Forest Peoples, at the annual Amazon Week event, in partnership with UNDP and Amanaka'a Amazon Network.

In 1992, I supported the Alliance of Forest Peoples team during the Earth Summit ECO 92.

Right after, I moved, to the heart of the forest, in the Occidental Amazon region, in Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre.

I was back to Rio de Janeiro in 1995, when I decided to return to school to take another University.

I graduated in 2001 at Estácio de Sá University with a bachelor's in Archaeology & Environment.

In 1999 I founded a social company called Ambientalize – Sustainable Programs (Programas de Sustentabilidade).

We developed projects with several partnerships, such as the European Commission with Alis Program – Alliance for the Information Society, and the Link All Project, the Inclusion of Latin American Communities in the Information Society.

I implemented the 1st Indigenous Culture project, partnership Funai/ MinC, in 30 Indigenous Lands in the Amazon, in 6 states: Acre, Amazonas, Amapá, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Roraima, from 2003-2010.

In 2013, I released a doco literary drama called Caminho de Prata (Silver Path), a Multifoco publisher.

From the series Amazonian Diaries, I wrote another book," The Shaman Who Ate the Serpent's Heart," inspired by the original story of the healer indigenous shaman, Tuin Kuru Yawanawá, which will be presented in the following posts.

Illustration by Leo.

I also wrote "Enchanted Hug - The Journey and the Huni Kuin People."

The union of the simple and the sophisticated can walk in harmony, side by side!

I have worked for many years with the Forest Peoples Network up to the present time.

I implemented the pioneering project of connective internet systems in Indigenous Lands and Extractive Reserves, creating a bridge between the eternal and the modern!

Renata Tolli, Joaquim Maná Huni Kuin, and Myself at Caras Studio promoting the book Mukani Discovers Her Strength.

In 2021 I wrote with Renata Tolli and Joaquim Maná Huni Kuin a new book, Mukani Discovers Her Strength, a fiction inspired by the Huni Kuin Peoples of Acre.

We released In Florida US, and Brazil: in São Paulo at Da Vila Book Store at Pamplona Shopping, and Rio de Janeiro at the Museu do Amanhã (Tomorrow's Museum).

In my archaeology of the future, cultural and environmental projects are like a wave that comes and goes but always points out the best!

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