Pedagogue, Livia Vidal is doing her PhD in the Post-Graduation Program in Education at Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF). Her research interests include restorative justice, race, education, and juvenile detention. De Souza Vidal recently published “Justiça Restaurativa em Instituição de Privação de Liberdade para Jovens” in Ações Socioeducativas: Sistema de Garantia de Direitos e Justiça Restaurativa (with J. Abdalla, L. Vidal, B. Veloso, 2018). She has coordinated with the Restorative Justice Programme in the Juvenile Detention in Rio de Janeiro with youth and workers (2018-2019) and became director at Escola de Gestão Socioeducativa Paulo Freire (2020-2023), permanent education for people than work in the juvenile detentions in Rio. De Souza Vidal is Education Coordinator, Women of Pedra collective, a filmmaker who is affiliated with Black Women Filmmakers, and a dancer. She also holds a Masters in Education from UFF, and a Masters in Development, Environment & Society from the Catholic University of Louvain and the University of Liège in Belgium. She prefaces Fania Davis’s book translation in Brazil.