Djamila Ribeiro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Djamila Ribeiro

Brazilian philosophist and feminist

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1980

Place of Birth: Santos, São Paulo, Brazil

Profession: human rights activist, philosopher

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Djamila Taís Ribeiro dos Santos (born 1980) is a Brazilian Black feminist, journalist, and philosopher.
She studied political philosophy at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) where she wrote a Masters thesis on the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Judith Butler.
She works as an editor for the weekly journal Carta Capital.In May 2016, she was named as the Vice-Secretary for Human Rights and Citizenship Affairs in the municipal government of São Paulo and joined the administration of Mayor and future Presidential candidate Fernando Haddad.She wrote the preface to the book Women, Race, and Class by the philosopher Black feminist Angela Davis for the translation and first edition in Brazilian Portuguese.
Ribeiro has collaborated with Davis on a number of occasions.Ribeiro is also a blogger and online activist.
She spoke as a representative of civil society at the Brazil Conference at Harvard University in 2018