Anna Ferreira

Anna Ferreira is a senior of Liberal Studies at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas, Venezuela and is the Director of Female Leadership in the NGO Proyecto Base. Anna founded "El Círculo," a Latin American Female Leadership network with participants from seven countries, thriving to cooperate and promote active female leadership and critical mass in the region, based on shared perspectives. She also is co-founder of "Venezuela Mi Alma Mater," an organization that works on sustainable education. Anna is an advocate for transforming realities through meaningful youth civic engagement, and the defense of democracy and equality in Latin America. For over three years, Anna was part of the National Student Movement of Venezuela holding elected positions of representation of youth demands towards national authorities which included implementing nonviolent practices and protocols in over 40 student protests with over 1 million participants from 2017 to 2019. Anna is proud to serve as a member of the CIVICUS Youth Action Team.