Ações afirmativas na UFMG: entrevista com Nilma Lino Gomes

Abstract

2022 is a year full of important dates for the Federal University of Minas Gerais and for the affirmative actions policies in Brazil. At the present date, UFMG, founded in 1927, turns 95 years old. The Affirmative Action Program at UFMG, founded in 2002, is 20 years old and Law 12.711, popularly known as Quota Law, which was enacted in 2012, is now 10 years old. For UFMG, for the Affirmative Actions Program and for the Quota Law, the performance of Nilma Lino Gomes, UFMG professor and former minister of Human Rights, Racial Equality and Women in the government of Dilma Roussef, was fundamental. In this interview, Professor Nilma reveals how her performance at the Faculty of Education and her always collective work at the head of Affirmative Actions laid the foundations for the transformations observed at the University in the following years.