Macaé Maria Evaristo dos Santos

Professor and Social Worker, tireless defender of education and social well-being. Evaristo holds a degree in Social Service from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC-MG, 1990), and a Masters Degree in Education from the School of Education at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG, 2006). She has taught in the Belo Horizonte city school network since 1984, working in the area of public education coordination and direction. She has acted as a Coordinating Manager for Educational Policy, Adjunct Secretary, and Municipal Secretary of Education in the period from 2004 to 2012. She taught at the Course for Intercultural Indigenous Teaching and coordinated the Program for the Implantation of Indigenous Schools in Minas Gerais from 1997 to 2003. She worked as Secretary of Literacy, Diversity, and Inclusion at the Ministry of Education (2013 - 2014), was State Secretary for Education in Minas Gerais from 2015 to 2018, and has worked primarily in the areas of educational policy, social movements, inclusion, and cultural plurality.