Kerexu Yxapyry
Mbya Guarani indigenous leader and the Executive Coordinator of the Guarani Yvyrupa Commission.
This organization acts in the territorial defence of the Guarani people who live in the Atlantic Forest region of southern and South-eastern Brazil. Kerexu Yxapyry is also one of the main female leaders of the National Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), Brazil’s largest indigenous movement. In her trajectory, she has worked vigorously to ratify the Indigenous Land Morro dos Cavalos and in the field of education and environment. She is an environmental manager who graduated from the UFSC (Federal University of Santa Catarina) and the founder of the Tataendy Rupa Training Center.