Beatriz Gomes Dias (Dakar, 1971) I am a black Portuguese woman, anti-racist activist and councillor for the Left Bloc on Lisbon City Council. I was a member of the Portuguese Parliament from 2019-2022, elected by the Left Bloc in the Lisbon constituency. I have a degree in Biology – Scientific Branch, from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. I teach biology in primary and secondary schools. I started my career in the 94/95 school year. I taught predominantly in schools in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. I have been a militant and leader of the Left Bloc since 2007. I am a member of the Lisbon Concelhia Coordinator. I served one term as an elected member of the Left Bloc in the Parish of Anjos (2009/2013), and two terms in the Parish of Arroios (2013/2017- 2017/2019). I am one of the founders of Djass – Associação de Afrodescendentes, a non-profit organization created in 2016 with the aim of fighting racism and defending the rights of people of African descent. I ran the association between 2016 and 2019. In 2017, Djass proposed the creation of a Memorial in Honor of Enslaved People. Its main interests are the decolonization of the processes of production and reproduction of knowledge and culture, as well as the construction of a counter-narrative on History and Memory.