Raoni Rajão is a Fellow at the Wilson Center (2022/23), Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Department of Production Engineering at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), and a member of the Graduate Programs in Production Engineering and Environmental Modeling and Analysis from the same institution. He has experience in remote sensing, working mainly on the following topics: monitoring tropical forests, coastal environments and pattern recognition by machine learning (Machine Learning). He is a founding partner of Solved, a company based in the Brazilian Amazon that works in the creation of software, hardware, and computational routines aimed at the field of remote sensing and spatial analysis. She has been the recipient of the Charlottesville Village Award, the Dorothy Corwin Spirit of Life Award, the Global Syndicate Humanitarian Award, Worldwide Children’s Foundation of New York’s Humanitarian Award, the Hawaii International Film Festival’s Humanitarian Award, and the Pongo Award.Ĭesar Diniz holds a degree in Oceanography from the Federal University of Pará (2009) as well as a Masters and Doctoral degree in Geology from the same university (20). Sarah has had both past and present board experience, serving on the following boards: University of Virginia Children’s Medical Center, the University of Virginia Council for the Arts, the Amazon Conservation Association, the Upton Foundation, Rachel’s Network, the Wake Forest University’s Board of Visitors, the Berklee Global Jazz Institute, and the D.C. In the fall of 2010, Sarah, along with Gigi Hancock, wife of legendary jazz great, Herbie Hancock, co–founded CIAMO, an arts and music school based in Benin, Africa. She works to build cross disciplinary curriculum that support core subjects, including middle and high school STEAM curriculum built around the documentary River of Gold. Sarah has been engaged in educational innovation for 25 years, creating projects both locally and globally. Her other film projects include producing the award-winning Kids Against Malaria music video P.S.A., a transmedia program to promote treatment and prevention for malaria in Africa and the Anthem for the Amazon music video, a video with the voices of 500 children from around the world singing to protect the Amazon. Sarah is a producer and co-director of the award winning film River of Gold and the short documentary Mercury Uprising, both films about illicit and unregulated gold mining in the Amazon Rainforest. As the President and Founder of the Amazon Aid Foundation, Sarah works with Neotropical scientists to study Amazonian biodiversity with an eye toward educating the public and introducing cutting-edge conservation practices and on the ground solutions to the region. Sarah duPont is an award-winning humanitarian, educator and filmmaker and is a vocal advocate of ecological preservation. In Spanish and English with English subtitles.“River of Gold,” a film by Reuben Aaronson and Sarah duPont."River of Gold" reaffirms the right of the rainforest to exist as a repository of priceless biodiversity and not as the toxic remains of man’s greed for gold. Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, "River of Gold" is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey bearing witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold. Join us for this in-person film screening of "River of Gold," followed by a discussion with Director Sarah duPont and Brazilian experts Cesar Diniz, Raoni Rajão, and Luiz Eloy Terena on the topics of who profits from illegal gold mining in the Amazon and the consequences of mining on public health, the environment, and Indigenous rights.Ī reception with light refreshments will be served as of 5pm and the film screening will begin at 5:30pm.
Chan School of Public Health Chair, Brazil Studies Program - DRCLAS Moderated by: Marcia Castro, Andelot Professor of Demography Chair of the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Speakers: Sarah Dupont, Founder & President, Amazon Aid Foundation César Diniz, Technical Coordinator, Coastal Zone and Mining Team, MapBiomas Raoni Rajão, Associate Professor of Environmental Management and Social Studies of Science and Technology, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and 2022-2023 Fellow, Wilson Center Luiz Eloy Terena, Legal Advisor, Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB) This event will be held in both English and Portuguese with simultaneous interpretation.
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