Indigenous Public Policies and the Protection of Life: Transforming the State to Protect the Land

The Earth Rights Advocacy Program (ERA) from NYU Law School will hold a public panel with Samara Carvalho Pataxó (Pataxó Peoples) and Luiz Eloy Terena (Terena Peoples) to discuss the participation of Indigenous Peoples within the Brazilian state institutions, the design and  implementation of public policies for Indigenous peoples, and the challenges of the new Brazilian administration. 

Speakers: 
Samara Carvalho Pataxó: Samara Carvalho Pataxò is the Chief Advisor for Inclusion and Diversity at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Superior Electoral Court - TSE. She is currently a PhD student at the Law School of the University of Brasilia, and holds a Masters in Law, State, and Constitution from the same university, and a specialization on State and Law of Traditional Communities from the Federal University of Bahia. She has worked as a legal advisor to Indigenous organizations such as United Movement of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of Bahia (MUPOIBA); Articulation of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations NE, MG, ES (APOINME); and Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). 

Luiz Eloy Terena: Luiz Eloy Terena is the Executive Secretary of the Brazilian Ministry of Indigenous Peoples. Terena is an Indigenous lawyer with experience working at the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), among others. Terena holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the National Museum (UFRJ), a PhD in Legal and Social Sciences from the Faculty of Law (UFF), and did a post-doctoral instance at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. 

Moderator: 
Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz, Post-doctoral Scholar at Earth Rights Advocacy Program.