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Manoela Vianna she/her
Coordinator of the Technopolitics Program
Manoela Vianna is the Coordinator of the Technopolitics Program at the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s Rio de Janeiro office, where she also leads communication efforts. She is a journalist with a Master’s degree in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Her work supports Brazilian civil society organizations advocating for technologies to be developed and governed from a human rights perspective, with a focus on the intersections between digital rights and socio-environmental justice. The program also addresses gender as a cross-cutting issue and engages with debates on information integrity and the regulation of platforms and AI in Brazil. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Communication Technologies and Aesthetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.