Leonardo Custódio

Leonardo Custódio (PhD 2016 Tampere University), currently a postdoctoral researcher in Minority Studies at ÅAU and PI of the Kone Foundation research project Anti-Racism Media Activist Alliance (ARMA): Research and Activism Collaboration for Creative Uses of Digital Media, Pedagogy and Arts against Racism in Finland (2017-2020). Custódio is a leading scholar on communication for social change in Finland. Working at the intersections between academia, activism and organized civil society, Custódio has established himself as a creative agent for collaborative knowledge production between South and North. He has published in peer-reviewed journals, but also produced the collaborative documentary “Complexos” (Finland/Brazil, 2020) based on his PhD research and co-authored the schoolbook Fair Play: Confronting Racism and Coloniality in Games (Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti, 2022). Custódio is the author of Favela media activism: Counterpublics for human rights in Brazil (Lexington Books, 2017).