Tainá Marajoara,carries the matriarchal ancestry of the Aruã Marajoara Indigenous people. She is an Indigenous thinker, curator, cook, cultural producer, and founder of the Iacitatá Food Culture Center. As a leader of the Food Culture Network, she played a key role in the fight for the recognition of food culture as a form of Brazilian cultural expression. Through this work, since 2013, food culture has come to be recognized as both an environmental safeguard and a guarantee of rights, especially for Indigenous peoples and traditional communities. She serves as a National Councilor for Food Culture (Ministry of Culture), is a researcher at NEHO/USP, and a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).She has received several honors, including the Cayetano Redondo Free Chair (Venezuela, 2011), the Paulo Frota Human Rights and Amazonia Commendations (2018), and tributes from the Brazilian Congress of Agroecology and the International Agroecology Film Festival (2019). She works to safeguard Amazonian food heritage by valuing knowledge masters and promoting the intergenerational transmission of wisdom. She also contributed to the creation and approval of public policies such as the Cultura Viva Law, the Aldir Blanc Law, and the Paulo Gustavo Law.