Team Member

Âurea Mouzinho (she/her/hers) is the Africa Program Manager at Thousand Currents, and a feminist economics thinker and doer. For the past decade, she has worked at the intersection of research, activism and movement building to advance decolonial visions of economic justice. Before joining Thousand Currents, Âurea was the Campaigns and Policy Advocacy Coordinator for tax and gender at Global Alliance for Tax Justice. Before that, she was the Economic and Social Justice Program Manager at the Open Society Initiative for South Africa. She is a co-founder of Angola’s first feminist collective Ondjango Feminista and currently serves on the Board of Directors at AWID. As a new mom to a Gemini boy, Âurea is happiest on slow days at home with her young family, and in the company of her books, pots, and plants. She holds a Master’s of Development Studies from SOAS, and graduated with honors from a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Cape Town. She occasionally tweets as @kitondowe.