Vanessa Pessoa

Advisor to SPTrans, City of São Paulo, Brazil

Vanessa Pessoa has over 25 years of experience in public and private sectors, administration, communications and leadership around interdisciplinary issues on race and gender in urban transport. Since 2017, she has been leading the Communications Department at the Transport Secretariat of the City of São Paulo. She is also responsible for the Institutional Support Group at SPTrans, a company that manages public transport in the city of São Paulo. She has been an active member of an inter-secretariat group working on gender and race in urban mobility at São Paulo City Hall. She holds a master’s degree in law and journalism.