Gilberto Vieira da Cruz Junior

Gilberto Vieira da Cruz Junior has been a manager and producer of collective actions and organizations since 2008. He researches the centrality of urban peripheries in the era of data coloniality. He also serves as the CEO of data_labe, a data journalism laboratory in Rio de Janeiro run by young favela residents who work by searching, analyzing and visualizing data on gender, race, education, territory and digital rights .Vieira da Cruz Junior holds a Bachelor's in Social Communication (2008), a Master's in Culture and Territorialities (2015) and is a current PhD student in Urban Studies (2025).