Cristine Takuá graduated in philosophy from UNESP (Universidade Estadual de São Paulo. She is a curator and educator belonging to the Maxacali ethnic group. Founder and Director of Relations at Instituto Maracá, she is dedicated to promoting the arts and cultures of Indigenous peoples in Brazil and curated the first digital Indigenous Art Festival Rec Tyty. Along with other indigenous leaders Cris Takuá co-founded of the Museum of Indigenous Cultures of São Paulo in 2022. Together with her partner Carlos Papa, she created Nhe’ery, an exhibition about the indigenous cosmovisions of the Atlantic Forest (2023.) Cris Takuá has worked with curators Anita Ekman and Sandra Benites on international exhibitions such as Ka´a Body –Cosmovisions of the Forest in London at Paradise Row (2021) and in Paris at Galeria Radicantes (2022), and in Santa Fe, Womb of the Earth to open at the AIA – Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) in February 2024. Cris Takuá is also a member of the Indigenous Education Nucleus (NEI) of the São Paulo Secretary of Education and is a founding member of the Indigenous Teachers Articulation Forum of the State of São Paulo (FAPISP).