Jota Marques

Director of Programming and Content Advisor, EBC

05/06/2024

05/06/2024

Educação e Trabalho

Future.U

Jota Marques, 31 years old, teacher, former Guardian Councilor of Jacarepaguá, is a member of the Unified Black Movement (MNU) and co-founder of Favelas na Luta, deputy councilor in Rio de Janeiro, scholar of childhood and adolescence, and of popular education, at UERJ, where he graduated in Pedagogy and, not least, resident of Cidade de Deus, the one in the film. It has been working with popular education for 15 years, directly training around 3,000 students in various educational spaces. He founded Coletivo Marginal, an independent school of popular education, community and political communication.