Dr. Jaqueline Gomes de Jesus is a Professor of Psychology at the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ). She is a permanent Professor Member of the Postgraduate Program in History Teaching at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (PROFHISTÓRIA/UFRRJ) and the Interinstitutional Graduate Program in Bioethics, Applied Ethics, and Public Health at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (PPGBIOS/FIOCRUZ). She holds a PhD in Social Psychology of Work and Organizations from the University of Brasília (UnB) and completed her postdoctoral studies at the School of Social Sciences and History at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (CPDOC/FGV). Among other publications, she is the author and editor of the book "Transfeminism: Theories and Practices," the first book in Portuguese on the subject. She is a former president of the Brazilian Association of Trans-Homoculture Studies (ABETH). She was a visiting researcher at Duke University (USA), with whom she is developing research on the mental health of sexual and gender minorities in low- and middle-income countries. In 2024, she was awarded as an outstanding Brazilian researcher by the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT.