The gap between Policy and Reality

Thaline Karajá is an Indigenous activist, artist, and environmental defender from the Karajá People of Santarém, Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. For more than a decade, she has dedicated her work to protecting Indigenous territories, empowering women, and promoting environmental justice across the Amazon region.

She has participated in forums, cultural events, and global dialogues on climate change and Indigenous rights, advocating for policies that respect traditional knowledge and self-determination. As Brazil prepares to host COP30 in Belém, Thaline represents a generation of Indigenous leaders who merge ancestral wisdom, artistic expression, and political clarity to inspire new paths toward a just and sustainable future.

Thaline’s path weaves together activism and art. Through music, performance, and storytelling, she shares the spiritual and political messages of her people — bringing the rhythms, languages, and worldviews of the forest to new audiences. Her artistic practice is both an act of cultural preservation and a form of resistance, using creativity to make Indigenous realities visible in national and international spaces.

Currently based between Brazil and Europe, she continues to collaborate with organizations and initiatives that amplify Indigenous voices through education, culture, and intercultural dialogue.