Eliane Brum

Eliane Brum is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, writer and documentarist. Brum is the author of a novel, Uma Duas (One Two), and the forthcoming Banzeiro Okoto: The Amazon as the Center of the World, from which her essay in this issue is excerpted. She is a co-founder of SUMAÚMA, a trilingual journalism platform, which aims to place the Amazon rainforest at the center of global journalism.