Priscilla Ferreira

Dr. Priscilla Ferreira is an Afro-Brazilian feminist, abolitionist, and social justice educator. She is also an Assistant Professor of Geography and Latinx & Caribbean at Rutgers University- New Brunswick-USA. Her work and activism focus on Black feminist mutual-aid economies in Brazil, Black co-op movements across the African Diaspora, urban Black geographies, and community-engaged methodologies and scholarship.  

She has been organizing with communities of color inside and outside of academia over the past twenty years and collaborated in several popular education projects internationally.  Dr. Ferreira is founder and the coordinator of the English & Social Justice School, a language justice Black co-op that offers language training, interpretation and translation services for social movements and creates opportunities for international education and political collaboration for/with Black grassroots activist, Black artists and scholars.  

Publications:

• Ferreira, P; Santos, R. E. 2023. ‘Methodologies of Black Social Movements’ in Lovell, S. A., Coen, S. E., & Rosenberg, M. W. (Eds.). The Routledge handbook of methodologies in human geography. Taylor & Francis.

• Ferreira, P. (2022). My curls, my crown. In L. Wanzer (Ed.). Trauma, tresses and truth: untangling our hair through personal narratives. Chicago Review Press.

• Ferreira, P. (2021). Encounters in Black Feminist Geographies That Ache and Bond. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 49(1), 137-160

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• Mcgrann/USF Global Black Geographies Conference Chair- Keynote roundtable- Theorizing Global Black Geographies - Rutgers

• Popular education and the economics of abolition. The Inaugural Jack Quarter Lecturership in Social Economy. [Keynote Address] Jun, 2 2023. The Ontario Institute of Education (OISE). University of Toronto, Canada

• Black Brazilian Consciousness Day Abroad- Teacher's College Columbia University

Previous Organizations:

• University of Texas- Austin

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Global Citizenship Experience High School and Educator Institute

Accomplishments:

• Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies and Latino Studies

• Urban Studies Foundation Knowledge Mobilization Award

• Rotary World Peace Fellow

Upcoming Projects:

• Ferreira, P.; Serafim, Ana Lucia (2023) Tia Lucinha da Cidade de Deus(as):a biografia política de uma organizadora comunitária. Desalinho Publicacoes (“In press”). Series of launching activities

• Global Black Geographies Network

• Collaborate in building the framework to institute the National Association of Black Cooperators

I am an Afro-Brazilian feminist, abolitionist, and social justice educator. My work and activism focus on Black solidarity economies, Black geographies, and community-engaged pedagogies and scholarship. I have been been organizing with communities of color inside and outside of academia over the past twenty years and collaborated in several popular education projects internationally. I am the founder and the coordinator of the English & Social Justice School, a language justice Black co-op that offers language training, interpretation and translation services for social movements and creates opportunities for international education and political collaboration for/with Black grassroots activist/scholar/artists. I am a board member of Collective Diaspora, a new membership-based organization of Black cooperatives and Black-led co-op support organizations from across the African diaspora.