Meet Vale do Dendê at the 6th Brazil Africa Forum

Vale do Dendê is the first Black Startup accelerator in the Northeast of Brazil. Created to foster innovation and creativity with a focus on diversity, it works especially in the promotion of the ecosystem of Salvador, the most African city in Brazil and that will receive the 6th Brazil Africa Forum next November.

CEO of Vale do Dendê, Paulo Rogério Nunes is a confirmed speaker at the Forum. He is going to share the experience of Vale do Dendê in the construction of public policies for innovation and how the initiative became highlighted in the national and international media for its pioneering and strategic vision.

In addition to the work in Vale do Dendê, Paulo Rogério Nunes is the co-founder of Ethnic Media Institute, the largest Black Media NGO in Brazil since 2005. He also cofunded the news portal Correio Nagô, focused on diversity, human rights and inclusion. Nunes was a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow (2011-2012) at the University of Maryland, where he studied Journalism and Digital Media. He is also affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.

Paulo Rogério Nunes was one of the 11 young leaders invited by the former president Barack Obama to a meeting in his last visit to Brazil and also spoke on the opening ceremony of the first Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.

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