Marisa Viana

Marisa Viana is a native of the Brazilian Amazon and an intersectional feminist. Most recently she was the Executive Coordinator of RESURJ Alliance, where she facilitated, connected, and sustained a thriving space for and with younger global south feminists to organize for sexual and reproductive justice. Marisa’s commitment and dedication to sexual and reproductive justice organizing and human rights is deeply rooted in her personal experiences growing up in the Brazilian Amazon, where discrimination and violence against women, girls, trans and non-binary folks is rampant. She has led young feminist organizing at the global, regional, and national levels and worked with feminist organizations advocating for women’s human rights and gender justice across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Pacific. Marisa’s experience spans evidence-based advocacy, program design and strategic planning, and participatory evaluation and learning, implementation of youth-friendly health services, grantmaking for women’s and LGBTI focused groups, and young feminist organizing. She led the Association for Women’s Rights and Development (AWID)’s Young Feminist Program; worked at the Foundation for Tropical Medicine in the Brazilian Amazon implementing youth-friendly health services program for adolescents living with HIV/AIDS. Marisa was a Program Associate for Latin America at the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC) as well as IWHC’s international policy program training and mobilizing young people from around the world to advocate effectively for sexual and reproductive health and rights in intergovernmental spaces. She is a founding member of the Vecinas Feministas for Sexual and Reproductive justice in Latin America. Marisa has served as an advisor to MamaCash and over the years has provided recommendations to various donors and funders supporting gender justice and SRHR across the globe. Marisa has a B.A. in International Affairs and Environmental Social Justice from Northeastern University and a Master of Public Health – Population and Family Health from Columbia University.