Gabriele Costa Bento Garcia

Supervisory Board Member

Gabriele Costa Bento Garcia

Supervisory Board Member

Gabriele is a lawyer, social entrepreneur and international speaker. She has a master’s degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a Bachelor of Laws from Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUC), a postgraduate degree in Corporate Law from EDESP/FGV (Getulio Vargas Foundation) and in Social Innovation Management from the Amani Institute. She is specialized in social business from Artemisia and has a degree in Social Innovation from the University for Peace (UNPeace). She is also Chevening Alumni and a Dalai Lama Fellow. After almost ten years working as a Brazilian qualified lawyer at Pinheiro Neto Advogados, she started to fully focus on the organization she co-founded in 2013. Think Twice Brasil is a social impact organization with the purpose of promoting Education for Peace and Human Rights, as tools to transform society. The first project she led through the organization was a field research about human rights violations, in which she traveled to 40 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to get to know more about complex realities and possible solutions. Since its foundation, Think Twice Brasil has reached more than 10,000 people  through their transformative educational projects. Furthermore, she is an advisor at the RONA Foundation, an organization that works for women’s rights in Kenya, and Serenas, a nonprofit that tackles violence against girls in Brazil.

Work experience:

  • 2005 – 2014: Associate at Pinheiro Neto Advogados
  • 2008 – 2014: Member of the Social Responsibility Board of Pinheiro Neto Advogados
  • 2013 – present: Co-founder and Director of Think Twice Brasil

Other positions:

  • 2015 – present: Advisor at the RONA Foundation in Kenya
  • 2021 – present: President of the Ethics Committee at Serenas
  • 2019-2021 – Coordinator in the Human Rights Committee of the Bar Association OAB/Sao Paulo