Magide Vieira is a Brazilian historian, gender studies researcher, and M.A. candidate in International Relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She is also an activist and member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), the current governing party of Brazil, serving on the National Women’s Collective in Rio de Janeiro and the National Collective of International Relations of PT Youth.
Currently, she works on the project “Pode Espalhar”, a consortium initiative led by the Lula Institute, the Fundação Perseu Abramo, and the Central Única dos Trabalhadores (CUT), Brazil’s largest trade union federation. The project focuses on political mobilization, democratic engagement, and strengthening grassroots participation.
Previously, she served as a Special Advisor at the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro (ALERJ). At UERJ, she worked in the Offices of Extension, Culture, and the Rector’s Office, where she coordinated international initiatives on democracy, regional integration, and human rights.
Among her main projects, she coordinated the political-academic meeting Democracy and Equality (2022), organized by UERJ in partnership with the Grupo de Puebla. The event brought together presidents, former presidents, ministers, diplomats, and legislators from eleven countries to discuss progressive public policies. In 2023, she also coordinated the international seminar Five Years of Struggle for Marielle and Anderson, in partnership with the Marielle Franco Institute, and Cartographies of Cultures: Latin American Meeting on Memory, Territory, and Identities, organized with the Escuela de Estudios Latinoamericanos y Globales (ELAG) and the Joaquín Herrera Flores Institute – Latin America (IJHF-AL).
She was also part of Manifestate (2023–2025), a regional leadership program of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) that brings together young progressive political leaders from across Latin America to strengthen democratic, feminist, and social justice values within political parties and civil society.
Her work is driven by a commitment to social justice, gender equality, youth rights, and the empowerment of marginalized communities. Through research, political organizing, and international cooperation, she seeks to contribute to a more democratic, inclusive, feminist, and sustainable future.