Kamukunji

In this episode, Patti Anahory interviews Gabriela Leandro Pereira, professor of architecture and urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Professor Gabriela Leandro speaks about her work with Coletiva Terra Preta, a collective of five Afro-Brazilian women who created the podcast series ‘Des-embraquecendo a Cidade’, loosely translated to "de/un-whitening the city". bio Gabriela Leandro Pereira is an architect and urban planner. She graduated from the Federal University of Espírito Santo and obtained her masters and doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Bahia, both in Brazil. She won the Thesis Prize with her dissertation entitled  "Body, discourse and territory: City in dispute in the narrative of Carolina Maria de Jesus". She is a professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador. Her main areas of research and teaching are: narrative, history and memory of the city; the history of architecture and urbanism; contemporary urb