Mazé Morais
Maria José Morais Costa, better known as Mazé Morais is from Batalha, PI, Brazil, where she lives with her husband and son. She is a family farmer of beans, corn, manioc and small animals. She is a leader in community organizations, youth ministry, and in the Brazilian Rural Workers Union (MSTTR). In 2013 she was elected Youth Secretary of Brazil’s National Confederation of Agricultural Workers) (CONTAG), and has served as secretary of its women’s caucus since 2017. In 2019 she coordinated the March of the Daisies, a mass mobilization of rural and indigenous women to defend the forest and waters. She is also part of the board of the Confederation of Family Producers, Peasants and Indigenous Organizations of the Expanded Mercosur (COPROFAM).