Elza Fátima Rodrigues
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Rodrigues is an activist at the Center for the Study and Defense of Afro-Brazilians of Pará – CEDENPA and the Network of Black Women. She is a journalist with a doctorate in media studies from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and the coordinator of the City of Belém’s Anti-Racist Coordinating Committee.