ROSANGELA MALACHIAS
Rosangela Malachias is a journalist and Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow/Fulbright Program at University of Maryland, College Park Philip Merril College of Journalism (2008-2009). She has a PhD in Sciences of Communication (2002) and a master’s degree in Latin America Integration (1996). Both studies were made at USP University of Sao Paulo. For almost 20 years, Malachias has been a researcher and social activist working to elaborate and implement public policies for the inclusion of black people. From 1997 until 2000, Malachias was a Mac Arthur Foundation fellow (Population Program), writing and developing the Juventude Interativa project to prevent drug use, HIV and STD among black youth. From 2003 to 2007, she was Academic Consultant from Race Development and Social Inequality Program (USP UFBa Howard University & Vanderbilt University), a FIPSE-CAPES consortium for exchanging Brazilian undergraduate students and American graduate students. In 2004, with 2 partners, she created the "Grupo Midia e Etnia" and the first SIME - First International Conference about Media and Ethnicity, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2006, she became a UNESCO researcher to study and write an article about "Access and Retention of Black Students at USP". She opened the Media and Ethnicity office to train and update public teachers in communication, race, gender and class subjects.
