Evalina Gomes Dias, an Afro-Portuguese Black woman, is a human rights activist, founding member, and chair of Djass (Association of Afro-descendants) http://djass.pt/, an anti-racist organization founded in May 2016 in Lisbon/Portugal that advocates for the rights of Black people, Africans, and descendants of Africans in Portugal. On behalf of the organization, she was responsible for submitting a project to the Lisbon City Hall (2017) proposing the establishment of a “Memorial to Honor the People Enslaved by the Portuguese Empire” in Lisbon. https://www.memorialescravatura.com/
She holds a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE) and a Bachelor’s degree in Management and Public Administration from the Instituto Superior Ciências Sociais e Políticas (ISCSP)