Daniel Iberê Alves da Silva

(Last updated during their term as a Commissioner - January 2022)

Daniel Iberê Alves da Silva is an Indigenous member of the M’byá Guarani people in Brazil and a citizen leader committed to sharing Indigenous ways of knowing. Iberê is a councillor on the Municipal Council of Cultural Policies of Rio Branco, Acre, and member of the Thematic Committee of Traditional Communities/Indigenous Cultures. He was a founding councillor of the Indigenous Council of Brazil’s Federal District (2017). His research explores political sociology, governance and social thought, particularly as it relates to the Amazon and impacts on Indigenous peoples. He has held a number of roles in the following organizations: Usina de Artes João Donato (Art Plant Joao Donato, once the site of a cashew processing plant, now an art school for music, performing arts and cinema); the Institute Dom Moacyr Grechi in the Roberval Cardoso Professional and Technology Education Centre; the Programa Nacional de Acesso ao Ensino Técnico e Emprego (PRONATEC, which aims to expand and democratize public secondary education) coordinated by the Instituto Federal do Acre; among others. He is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at Universidade de Brasília. He holds a master’s degree in social sciences from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte with a concentration in politics, development and society; and a bachelor’s in social sciences, specializing in political science, from the Universidade Federal do Acre.