Evalina Gomes Dias (Dakar, 1968) has a degree in Human Resources Management (ISCSP) and a Masters in Development Studies (ISCTE). She is an activist for human rights, migrants/refugees and asylum seekers. Since 2019, she has been tutoring Social Policy in the Social Sciences degree programme at Universidade Aberta. She is the founder and president of Djass - Associação de Afrodescendentes, created in 2016, an organisation where she also acts as project manager. In 2017, the association proposed and won a project to create a Memorial in honour of enslaved people in Lisbon, an initiative proposed as part of Lisbon's Participatory Budget, which is still being negotiated with the City Council (CML).