Meet the Amara Team: Sebastiao

Say hi to Sebastiao! Sebastiao has been part of the Amara Galaxy for over a decade. He is a Project Manager with the Amara on Demand team, our expert translation and subtitling team. In addition, Sebastiao plays a critical role in our newest initiative, Amplifying Voices. This initiative is working to create a more collaborative and inclusive media ecosystem. As part of this effort, we partner up with content creators to translate life-enriching videos into a multitude of languages to ensure everyone has access to information and education. On our way to changing the world, we couldn't have asked for a better changemaker partner than Sebastiao!

Sebastiao, could you share a little about you?

I'm a learner, a traveler, a father. Not necessarily (most definitely not) in this order.

Coffee or tea? Cats or dogs? Mountains or sea?

Tea, dogs, sea!

You're on a spaceship. About to have first contact with a new alien species. What's the first thing you tell them?

What took you so long?

If you could change one thing about the world to make it better, what would you do?

Remove borders.

In an ideal world, what does removing borders mean for you and how would the world look like?

In addition to actually dissolving the existing political borders that are a crystalized and discriminatory form of violence against migrant, refugee, and indigenous populations, it must also mean that people would have the means and the time to communicate with each other and share their ideas and creations, without ever erasing the rich texture of specific forms of expression that people strive to devise, preserve, or rebuild.

How did you end up at Amara and what do you do here?

I jumped aboard right from the start and I'm a project manager now.

How long have you been with Amara and why did you decide to make this your home?

As a contributor since the start, as a PM for nearly a decade now -- it has always felt like home because we're striving daily to remove barriers, so that more and more people can understand each other.

You work with people from across the globe, what are some of the biggest challenges you think we're still battling today in our society?

I would say it lies in the constant struggle to acknowledge, cherish, and nurture our plurality, our differences, those very elements that make us unique.