Communications Manager and Indigenous & Climate Projects Manager

Yula joined the PPP team in May 2020 and has been overseeing internal and external comms, reshaping narrative and producing and writing website content, supporting project managers with comms strategy, and planning social media and PR.

Currently, Yula is also managing the portfolio of Indigenous exchange and climate action projects, working with Indigenous artists from Brazil, including the delivery of a major cultural heritage initiative: the reconstruction of the sacred Kamukuwaká cave. She has also produced Echoes, the Indigenous Film Festival at the ICA in London, and co-produced the short film Replika and the VR experience  Kamukuwaka: a call of the forest (2025).

As a journalist and international correspondent, she worked for major TV networks in Brazil – Globo TV, GloboNews and SBT. In the US, where she was based for 13 years, Yula covered 3 Presidential elections, 13 United Nations General Assemblies, G20 summits, historic diplomatic agreements, Fidel Castro’s funeral and every major breaking news story. She was awarded the Herzog prize for her series of special reports from Guantanamo, Cuba, as the first Brazilian journalist to enter the US military base.

She has an MA in Media Studies through a Chevening Scholarship (FCDO) and is a regular contributor to SBT (Brazilian TV network) in London and Radio France International on a freelance basis.