Cristina Roldão is a sociologist and one of the most well-known voices in the public and academic debate in Portugal on racism and Blackness, especially in the field of education. She is a researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE) and adjunct professor at the Setúbal School of Education (ESE-IPS). Her research focuses on the processes of exclusion that affect people of African descent, the various forms of institutional racism, as well as the dissemination of Black history and the African diaspora in Portugal. Among other initiatives, she developed the Roadmap for an Anti-racist Education to deconstruct Eurocentrism in school textbooks and "intercultural education". She was part of the organizing committee for the 7th Afroeuropean Studies Conference (Lisbon, 2019) and she is a member of the committee for the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University. Roldão served as a member of the working group for the National Plan for the Fight against Racism and the project to collect ethnic and racial data for the 2021 census in Portugal. She was a columnist for the national newspaper Publico and she is the author of several publications, including Tribuna Negra: Origens do Movimento Negro em Portugal (1911-1933) [Black Tribune: Origins of the Black Movement in Portugal] (with José Pereira and Pedro Varela, Tinta da China, 2023). She is also co-editor of Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances (Routledge, 2023) and of the commemorative edition of the newspaper O Negro (Falas Africanas, 2021) for the 110th anniversary.