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Ana Castro
- Location:
- Brazil
- Languages:
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Education, Mass Incarceration & Criminal Justice Reform, Women and Girls, Gender violence , Human Rights
- Expertise:
- Educational materials, Impact Producing, Impact Strategist/Advisor, Designing impact guides
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- cis woman
Bio
I'm Ana Castro. I graduated in journalism in 2001. I worked in the newsrooms for newspapers, magazines and television. After 14 years, I decided to take another path. I did my PhD on books and repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship. In 2015 I released my first documentary, Coratio, about torture and violation of civil rights in the dictatorship. In 2019 I released the biography of the disappeared politician Ana Rosa Kucinski Silva, telling the trajectory of her family, from the arrival of Poland fleeing from anti-Semitic persecution, until her disappearance in 1974. The book is called "Kaddish: prayer for a missing ". Since then, I also have publish two more children books. I've worked at the production company Maria Farinha Filmes and at the distributor Flow, both B Corp, with a commitment to social impact. I was the head of mobilization and social impact of the films and responsible for the relationship management with different stakeholders (NGOs, UN System, companies, civil society organizations). I've lead several impact campaigns. I am a co-founder of the collective Politics is the Mother who discusses motherhood and its power to transform the world and political influence. And I am a mother of two children. Tarsila and Ernesto.
