About The Speaker

Luciana Barreto
speaker
Luciana Barreto is CNN Brasil’s first black anchor whose been a presenter with decades of experience in television news. Apart from being a journalist, she is a human rights activist, and speaker. Luciana Barreto has worked on Futura, GNT, BandNews, TV Bandeirantes, TVE do Rio de Janeiro and TV Brasil. She graduated from Puc-Rio, and began her career at the age of 23 as a reporter and presenter. She won the National Journalism Award Abdias Nascimento, in 2012, for the program “Caminhos da Reportagem – Negros no Brasil: brilliance and invisibility”. She was named one of the Inspiring Women of 2015 by Think Olga.
Anchor/News Presenter