
Lorena França
Lorena is an anthropologist with a PhD from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, specialising in the food and biodiversity of Indigenous peoples in the Upper Rio Negro region of the Amazon. She is a researcher at the Centre for Indigenous Amazonian Studies (NEAI - Núcleo de Estudos da Amazônia Indígena) at the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), and has worked across the fields of cultural heritage, public policy, and cultural production.
As Co-Director of Forest Thinking, Lorena is responsible for the project's content research.

Miguel Farias
Miguel is a psychologist specialising in experimental psychology and the psychology of religion. He is Professor at Coventry and Oxford Universities in the UK and the coordinator of the Brain, Belief and Behaviour Laboratory. His research focuses on meditation, rituals, spirituality, and belief.
Miguel is the co-director and founder of Forest Thinking.

Guilherme Noronha
Guilherme is an advertising professional (graduated from the ESPM) and a graphic designer, with a postgraduate degree in Strategic Design from the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). He is also a photographer and entrepreneur, and the creator of Indigenous Participatory Design. For more than twenty years, he has worked with Amazonian communities on Indigenous and socio-environmental issues.
Guilherme is the communications consultant for Forest Thinking, as well as the project's web designer and episode editor.

Ariane Porto
Ariane is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP). She is a member of the Centre for Pragmatism Studies and of the board of ABPEducom. A filmmaker, writer, and cultural producer, she is also President of the Ecocine International Environmental and Human Rights Film Festival. Ariane is the director of films produced for Forest Thinking.

Justino Rezende
Justino is a thinker from the Ʉtãpinopona (Tuyuka) people, born on the Tiquié River in the north-western Amazon. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Theology, a Master's in Education, and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM). As a Salesian missionary, he is a member of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon and participated in the Amazon Synod at the Vatican.
Justino is an advisor for Forest Thinking.
