Luiza Helena de Bairros

Luiza Helena de Bairros (27 March 1953 – 12 July 2016) was a Brazilian administrator and sociologist. She was the chief minister of the Special Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality between 2011 and 2014.[1]

Luiza Helena de Bairros

Biography

Bairros was born in Porto Alegre but made her political career in the state of Bahia. She held a business degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, a master's degree in social sciences from the Federal University of Bahia and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Michigan.[2]

Bairros participated in United Nations Development Programme projects to fight racism.[3] From 2008, she was the Bahia State Secretary of Racial Equality Promotion under governor Jaques Wagner, when she was invited by President Dilma Rousseff to join her cabinet in 2011.

Bairros died on 12 July 2016[3] of lung cancer.

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References
  1. "Luiza Bairros, ex-ministra da Igualdade Racial, morre no RS". G1. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  2. "Luiza Helena de Bairros é a nova ministra da Igualdade Racial". Política (in Portuguese). 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2017-02-04.
  3. Luiza Helena Bairros in Memoriam (1953-2016), AISP, Retrieved 6 February 2017
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