Woman Leaders in Education. From Baixada Fluminense to the World

The article describes the successful stages of the Research and Extension Project started in 2015 at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), School of Education from Baixada Fluminense (FEBF) in Duque de Caxias, RJ, Brazil. The narrative transitions between personal and impersonal styles that compatible with the author's displacement (HALL) as a black woman, a teacher at a Brazilian public university and a protagonist and mediator of the actions constructed collectively with students. Self-definition and self-evaluation (COLLINS) has been a feature of research produced by and about black women.