Pronouns: she/her

Maíra Netto is a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States. She holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Brasilia (2019) and an MAS degree in Climate Science and Policy from UC San Diego at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2023).

Maíra started working with fisher communities in 2015 as a researcher and educator and is currently a consultant for NAMA to support the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and Movimento de Pescadores e Pescadoras Artesanais do Brasil (MPP) to build WFFP's 8th General Assembly and push other important political agendas for global fisher movements.

In July 2024, she launched a report — on which she is a co-author — at the 2nd global Small-Scale Fisheries Summit. The report is on the Ocean, Water, and Fisher People's Tribunals, a global fisher movement about how the expansion of Ocean Economy projects and activities, as well as Climate Change, are impacting Fisher Communities globally.

Maíra is interested in working with participatory action research, and building climate adaptation plans with fisher communities for coastal and inland fisher territories, as well as supporting fisher movements' political struggles for justice, recognition of their territories, and their customary rights.