Join the Next Social Change Career Podcast Livestream

Flora Pereira is the Chief Impact and Engagement Officer at the Pulitzer Center, where she leads the organization's theory of change and drives strategic engagement, communication, and impact programs across the US, Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. A global leader in strategic communication and civil society engagement, she has also held positions at CLUA, UN Environment, and FAO — and founded Afreaka, a media and education NGO that earned Brazil's Minister of Culture Prize for Independent Media.

In this upcoming episode, Flora shares what it takes to build a career spanning journalism, environmental rights, and social impact strategy across continents, what she has learned leading engagement at one of the world's most respected journalism organizations, and why the intersection of media and civil society has never mattered more.

Why Join the Livestream

• Explore how media, impact strategy, and civil society engagement come together in a global career
• Learn how the Pulitzer Center approaches theory of change and strategic impact across four regions
• Hear about the founding of Afreaka and what it takes to build a media and education NGO from the ground up
• Discover the path from environmental and gender rights research to senior leadership in impact journalism
• Gain insight into ecofeminist grassroots movements and southern perspectives on ecology and society
• Learn how senior impact roles increasingly require fluency across sectors — and how to position yourself for them
• Join the conversation live with questions and comments

When April 14, 2026 2:00 – 3:10 PM EDT

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The livestream includes time for audience questions and comments.

Can't attend live? The episode will be available shortly after, alongside 200+ past conversations on impact careers and social change: https://pcdn.global/listen

Bio – Flora Pereira

Flora Pereira is Chief Impact and Engagement Officer at the Pulitzer Center, responsible for the organization's theory of change and strategic engagement and communication and impact programs in the US, Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. She is a specialized researcher in the intersections of gender and environmental rights based at Coimbra University, and an Advisory Board member for the Forests, People, Climate global collaborative. Previously she held positions at CLUA, UN Environment, and FAO, and founded Afreaka, a media and education NGO awarded the Brazilian Minister of Culture Prize for Independent Media. She is the author of five school-oriented books and more than 400 articles for independent and mainstream media, and co-coordinator of the Ecology and Society Workshop at the University of Coimbra, with a focus on southern ecofeminist grassroots movements.