Lucia Fernanda Inácio Belfort Sales, known as Fernanda Kaingáng, belongs to the Kaingáng indigenous people from southern Brazil. Her name in Kaingáng is Jófej, which means the flower of a medicinal plant. Fernanda Kaingáng is an art educator at the Ponto de Cultura Kaingáng Jãre – Raiz Kaingáng, the first Indigenous Cultural Center in Brazil. She was the first indigenous lawyer to graduate in southern Brazil from Unijuí and the first Master of Law in Brazil from UnB. She is also an environmentalist and a human rights defender for indigenous peoples, with 24 years of experience in this field. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural heritage and intellectual property from the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Fernanda Kaingáng served as an advisor to the presidency of the Brazilian National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) and was a founding member of the Kaingáng Institute (Inka) and the Brazilian Indigenous Institute for Intellectual Property (Inbrapi). She is a specialist in Indigenous peoples in Latin America concerning the protection of cultural, material, and immaterial heritage before various United Nations bodies, and she has been involved in discussions on the IGC (Intergovernmental Committee) for more than 15 years. She is currently the Director of the National Museum of Indigenous Peoples at the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples, under the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples.