Izabel Barros

Izabel Barros is a historian, decolonial feminist and anti-racist activist in Brazil and Switzerland. She is an FNS PhD candidate in history in the project "Moral and Economic Entrepreneurship in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. A Collaborative History of Global Switzerland, c. 1830-1900" (IEP-UNIL). From 2020 to mid-2022, she was programme officer for feminist peace politics at cfd, the Feminist Peace Organisation. From 2013 to 2020, she was a researcher in Switzerland and programme manager for Brazil at the Cooperaxion Foundation. In Maranhão (Brazil), she worked with local civil society organisations, Quilombo and Indigenous communities who fight for the defence of their territory and self-determination. She is active in the collectives Taoca, Livingroom and Berner Rassismusstammtisch. She has also overseen numerous cultural and artistic initiatives, including Wie die Geranie nach Bern verschleppt wurde (2020), We Talk. Switzerland Unfiltered (2021) and Das Wandbild muss Weg! (since 2021).