Daiara Tukano is of the Tukano indigenous people – Yé’pá Mahsã, of the Eremiri Hãusiro Parameri clan of the Upper Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon and is one of the great contemporary indigenous thinkers. Indigenous activist, educator, communicator, recognized artist, and master in Human Rights at the University of Brasília, she was born in the midst of the creation of the national indigenous movement and follows the teachings of her father. She is a political and spiritual leader, besides being an important figure in the articulation of the Brazilian indigenous movement.
She is also the coordinator of Radio Yandê, the first indigenous web-radio in Brazil, and a consultant for the indigenous curatorship of the ColaborAmerica Festival, about new economies in Latin America.
