She is the President of the Board of Directors of the Fala Preta Organization of Black Women in Brazil. She has published extensively on the topics of the Brazilian black women’s movement, women’s health needs in underserved communities, and the prevention of HIV/AIDS. She served as the Rapporteur-General of the World Conference against Racism and was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the Conference. She was also one of the experts at the regional expert seminar for Latin America and the Caribbean (Santiago, October 2000) organized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in preparation for the World Conference. Ms. Santos Roland was born in 1951.