ANNA FLORA WERNECK

Social impact and human rights leader with over 20 years of experience designing, leading, and scaling cross-sector initiatives addressing child protection, violence prevention, and corporate responsibility. Demonstrated ability to translate research into action through public–private partnerships, advocacy, and evidence-informed programs across Brazil and international contexts. Brings a systems-level perspective grounded in collaborative leadership, equity, and measurable social impact—strongly aligned with the mission and practice-oriented approach of the University of Michigan’s Master of Arts in Social Impact Leadership.

• Safe online surfing: A tool for parents and caregivers developed by Childhood Brasil to contribute to the protection of children and adolescents from sexual violence in the digital environment, 2025 (https://navegarcomseguranca.childhood.org.br/home-completa/#guia)
• Aparecida Machado da Silva, Elisangela; Werneck, Anna Flora “Violation of child rights at major sporting events | a zoom in the Guardianship Councils – Rio de Janeiro”, 2017.
• “Childhood Brasil Report: EXPERIENCES AND RECOMMENDATIONS Child protection during the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2017”. Consultancy, Project Coordination and Texts.
• GDHeE, “Impact assessment on human rights: what companies must do to respect the rights of children and adolescents”, 2017. Contributed to the publication by analyzing the content and writing Childhood Brasil’s experience.
• “Mapping of Vulnerable Points to the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in Brazilian Federal Highways” Editions: 2009/2010, 2011/2012 and 2013/2014. Writing of the publications and contribution to the development of the methodology for mapping vulnerabilities to sexual exploitation on roads together with the Federal Highway Police and companies participating in the On the Right Track Program.
• Werneck, Anna Flora; Batista, Itamar Gonçalves; Vasconcelos, Maria Gorete O. M., 2014 “The essential is invisible to the eyes: impacts of sexual violence on the subjectivity of children and adolescents” article written for “Listening to Children and Adolescents in Situation of Sexual Violence: Theoretical and Methodological Aspects” book.
• Living in this digital world: impacts on health, education and social behavior. Editora Artmed. 2013, São Paulo, Brasil. Article: “Safe Online Surfing Project” Werneck, Anna Flora; Kobayashi, Erika; e Born, Leticia
• European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 86, Abril 2009 “Small-scale Tourism Development in Brazilian Amazonia: The Creation of a ‘Tourist Bubble’ ” | 59-79 Mirjam A. F. Ros-Tonen e Anna Flora Werneck
• “Neither War Nor Peace”, 2003. Research Assistant at the international study that aimed at understanding when, how and why children and adolescents are deciding to participate in organized armed violence in: Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Philippines, South Africa and the USA.

• Associação Beneficente Santa Fé Jan 2021 - Present Board member (https://santafe.org.br/)
• Project Aldeia Brasil April to July 2006 Raise awareness about indigenous issues by elaborating articles to magazine and popular websites on the relationship of the Xavante indigenous nation with soccer and the World Cup.
• American University - Washington, DC November 2005 Professor Assistant, Amazon, Brazil Assisted the fieldwork classes in the Amazon region of the International Environment & Development Course of the American University (http://www.iedonline.net).
• CISV - Children International Summer Villages (NGO - independent, non-political volunteer organization affiliated to UNESCO with the involvement of more than 60 countries, aiming the promotion of peace education and cross-cultural friendship)(www.cisv.org). Volunteer activities since 1992 Participation, organization and delegation leadership in several national and international programs.
• CONRED (Coordinadora para la Reducción de Desastres - Guatemala, C. A.) January to February 1999 Volunteer work in Guatemala after ‘Hurricane Mitch’.