Marisa Viana

Marisa Viana is currently the Executive coordinator of RESURJ (Realizing Sexual and Reproductive Justice Alliance), a transnational feminist alliance of activists working towards the fulfillment of sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender justice for all women and girls. Marisa’s commitment and dedication to social justice, gender equality and human rights is deeply rooted in her experiences growing up in a resource-poor area of the Brazilian Amazon where discrimination and violence against girls and women continues to be the norm. Marisa’s experience spans advocacy, program development and evaluation, implementation of youth-friendly health services, grant making, and young feminist organizing. Marisa is a Master in Public Health from Columbia University.