15 Facts About Damares Alves

Damares Regina Alves was born on 11 September 1964 and is a Brazilian lawyer and evangelical pastor.

Damares Alves is the second female minister appointed to the new government as of December 2018.

Damares Alves declared that she is engaged directly in the "preparation of youth for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" and intended to consolidate an agenda between different ministries of the Federal Government capable of integrating programs, policies, projects and initiatives under the same, articulated perspective of impact - modernizing education.

Damares Alves lived in Sao Carlos in the Sao Paulo state.

Damares Alves studied pedagogy at the Faculdade Pio X in Aracaju and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1986.

Damares Alves then studied law at the Faculdades Integradas de Sao Carlos and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1992.

Damares Alves was a pastor of Foursquare Gospel Church and of the Baptist Church of Lagoinha, in Belo Horizonte.

Damares Alves was co-ordinator of the educational project of Proteger Program, organization created by Guilherme Zanina Schelb, regional attorney of the Republic in the Federal District and member of the National Association of Evangelical Jurists.

In 1999, Damares Alves moved to Brasilia to work as a parliamentary assistant in the office of deputy Joshua Bengtson.

Damares Alves was chief of cabinet of another exponent of the Neopentecostal bench in the Chamber of Deputies, the federal deputy Joao Campos de Araujo.

Damares Alves has worked as legal adviser in the National Congress for more than 20 years, before her appointment by Bolsonaro to the Ministry of Women, Families and Human Rights.

Damares Alves had been a legal adviser in the National Congress for more than 20 years prior to her appointment by Bolsonaro.

Damares Alves has indicated that religious views should take greater prominence in national politics.

Damares Alves previously defended projects to fight juvenile self-harming and suicide as well as juvenile drug consumption.

Damares Alves has an adoptive daughter of Kamayura indigenous origin, born in 1998 in Xingu Indigenous Park.