Moema Viezzer

Moema Viezzer is a Brazilian sociologist and popular educator who has dedicated her life to women's causes and environmental issues. Following a period of exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, she returned to Brazil, where she established the Women's Network on Education (Rede Mulher de Educação) before working at the local, national, and international level, mostly with the Latin American Council of Popular Education (CEAAL), the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) the...See more

Moema Viezzer is a Brazilian sociologist and popular educator who has dedicated her life to women's causes and environmental issues. Following a period of exile during the military dictatorship in Brazil, she returned to Brazil, where she established the Women's Network on Education (Rede Mulher de Educação) before working at the local, national, and international level, mostly with the Latin American Council of Popular Education (CEAAL), the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE) the Latin American and Caribbean Network on Women's Popular Education (REPEM), and the International Network of Women for Peace Around the World (PWAR), among others. From 2003 to2011, she was an environmental education consultant for the Cultivating Good Water program in the western region of Paraná, and for the Gender Equity Program of the Itaipu Binacional. Moema wrote eight books, from which the most well known internationally is Let Me Speak! , and in recent years, with her husband Marcelo Grondin, she wrote the book Abya Lalal: Genocide, Resistance, Survival of First Nations Peoples in the Americas . Viezzer continues to fight for the international recognition and application of the Declaration of the Rights of the Mother Earth-Pachamama, with an emphasis on the rights of water. See less