Veredas

Mayra Cotta

Mayra Cotta is a lawyer specializing in gender, a graduate of the University of Brasília, a Ph.D. student in Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York, and a Master in Criminal Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

She was a legal advisor to the Human Rights Commission in the National Congress. She served as a special advisor to the Executive Secretariat of the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic. Mayra has taught in the Departments of Politics and Global Studies at the New School and the Departments of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies at Pace University. She was responsible for structuring and coordinating the first office to assist women suffering from Domestic Violence at the Legal Practice Center at UnB. She was a member of the Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean for the Defense of Women’s Rights, CLADEM.

Mayra is a founding partner of Veredas – Human Rights Strategies and author of Mulher, Roupa, Trabalho: Como se Veste a Desigualdade de Gênero and Um Ex-Amigo.

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