Sônia Guajajara
Sônia Bone Guajajara, is a Brazilian environmental and indigenous activist and politician.Biography
Sônia Guajajara was born among the Guajajara people in a village in the Amazonian rainforest in Maranhão. She studied at an agricultural college in Minas Gerais and continued studies in education at the Federal University of Maranhão.
She was Socialism and Liberty Party candidate for the vice-presidency of Brazil in the 2018 general elections as Guilherme Boulos' running mate. Guajajara was the first indigenous person to run for a federal executive office in Brazil. She has organized a number of demonstrations in support of indigenous rights in Brazil and facilitated a meeting of indigenous leaders with then President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff in 2013.
Guajajara is the leader of , an organization that represents around 300 indigenous ethnic groups in Brazil.
In 2015, she was named to the Brazilian Ordem do Mérito Cultural. She was also awarded a medal by Maranhão state.
In 2020, she has been calling for urgent environmental action amid the existential threat posed by the coronavirus.
