Sandra Benites Guarani Nhandewa

Sandra Benites Guarani Nhandewa, an indigenous thinker of the Guarani ethnicity, primary and secondary school teacher, disseminator of her ancestral wisdom and the cosmovision of the original peoples, anthropologist, art educator and artisan, sees in her work a greater purpose: a native of the Guarani Nhandewa ethnicity, from the village of Porto Lindo, in Mato Grosso do Sul. A PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), she took over as assistant curator of MASP- Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateubriand in 2020, becoming the first indigenous curator in Brazil.