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WHO WE ARE

Mukadzi – Colaboratório Feminista is a social enterprise and feminist collective created by women social scientists and researchers, with the purpose of generating knowledge, information and social innovation for gender equality and justice in the socio-economic, cultural and political areas in Mozambique.

We are a team of interdisciplinary professionals with extensive experience in the areas of social inclusion and women’s empowerment, tools for gender equality in the private, public sector and civil society. We have specific experience in areas such as economic resilience for women (including endogenous savings and rotating credit practices), transformative leadership for women, human rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, integrated response to gender-based violence, education, feminisms and social movements.

Our purpose

We want to transform our society through creative knowledge building and sharing of information and data on gender issues and women’s rights, to support civil society organizations, the private sector and public institutions, in order to apply effective approaches to equity and gender equality.

We want to transform the economy and business culture, developing solutions for greater inclusion of women and gender equality in the different economic sectors in Mozambique.

Our principles

Collaboration:
we believe that together we are stronger

Plurality:
we are different and plural women, equality is achieved through difference

Radical inclusivity:
we are against all forms of exclusion and discrimination

Care and self-care:
by taking care of each other and ourselves, we also transform the world

Revolutionary creativity:
rebellion in proposing solutions and paths to gender equality and social justice

The team

Catarina Casimiro Trindade

Co-founder of Mukadzi

Feminist, anthropologist and researcher/ consultant specialized in gender studies, feminisms and women’s movements in Mozambique.

She has a PhD in Social Sciences from the State University of Campinas (Brazil) and has worked, for over 10 years, on the topic of women’s human rights, for national NGOs, Government institutions and international development agencies.

Tassiana Tomé

Co-founder of Mukadzi

Mozambican sociologist and anthropologist, with approximately 10 years of experience in coordinating programs and advocacy to improve public policies in the areas of Education, Gender Equality and Women’s Rights in national organizations and United Nations agencies.

Tassiana is also a feminist and decolonial researcher, focusing on education, epistemic justice, democratization, peace and security and gender. She is co-founder of Mukadzi and director of AGE – Advancing Girls’ Education program, funded by USAID. She holds an MA in Development and Globalization Studies from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London.

Paola Prandini

Project Coordinator

She is an intersectional feminist and anti-racist activist. PhD and Master in Communication Sciences, from the University of São Paulo, and has a degree in Journalism, from Faculdade Cásper Líbero, in Brazil.

During her PhD, she was a Visiting Researcher at Eduardo Mondlane University, in Mozambique, and at the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. Co-founder of the social company AfroeducAÇÃO and Cultural Director of the Brazilian Association of Researchers and Professionals in Educommunication. Author of the books “Cruz e Sousa” (2011), “Carolinas”, in partnership with the photographer Diego Balbino (2014) and “A cor na voz: identidade étnico racial, educomunicação e histórias de vida” (2018), co-author of “Eu sou Ilê” (2012) and co-translator of “Beats, rhymes and school life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and identity politics” (2014).

Colaboradoras

Fernanda Teixeira

Collaborator

With almost fifty years of professional career, she has extensive experience in leadership positions in different humanitarian and civil society organizations.

She has worked, for the last 13 years, in national and international consultancies on matters related to gender and human rights, organizational development, education and disaster management, and also as a higher education teacher in different disciplines related to social work. She has a degree in Pedagogy and Psychology, from the Pedagogical University of Maputo, and also in Educational Sciences from Eduardo Mondlane University.

Alessandra Paes

Art director and designer

Brazilian designer, illustrator, visual artist and art educator working since 2006. She has been part of teams from several agencies and studios in São Paulo working in art and creative direction.

Nowadays, she focuses on creative development, and educational development for social organizations, focusing on childhood, ethnic-racial relations, gender and sustainable development.

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