Cristina Roldão is a sociologist, a researcher at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, and an Adjunct Professor at the Setúbal School of Education (ESE-IPS). She is an active voice in the academic and public debate on racism and Blackness in Portuguese society. Her research has focused on the processes of school exclusion of Afro-descendants, as well as Black History in Portugal. In her teaching, she has developed pedagogical approaches to the deconstruction of Eurocentrism in school textbooks and “intercultural education”, and has been co-coordinating the Roadmap for an Antiracist Education at ESE-IPS since its foundation in 2019. She was part of the organizing committee of the 7th Afroeuropeans Conference (Lisbon, 2019), belongs to the Steering Committee of the recent Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (Carnegie Mellon University, 2023) and to the faculty team of Black Europe Summer School (2025). Cristina Roldão was a columnist for the newspaper Público (2022-2024) and a member of the Working Groups on the National Plan to Combat Racism (2021/22) and on the Collection of Ethnic-Racial Data in the 2021 Census (2018/19). She is co-editor of the 110th anniversary edition of the newspaper ‘O Negro’ (Lisbon, 2021), co-author of the book 'Tribuna Negra: Origins of the Black Movement in Portugal (1911-1933)' and a co-editor of Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances (forthcoming on Routledge, July 2025).