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Nuremberg Sant'Anna
Global Authority in Diplomacy and Human Rights Education Certified by the US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights Washington DC.
Sant’Anna was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and raised in Rio de Janeiro due to the transfer of his father, an officer in the Brazilian Air Force. At age nineteen, shortly after military service, he began hitchhiking and visited twenty Brazilian states and the Amazon, where he was a jungle guide.
After two years of traveling around Brazil, he embarked for Europe and lived in France, Germany, and Holland as an immigrant. He completed a French language course at Paris-Sorbonne University. He then moved to Munich, Germany, where he studied German language and culture at Lateinamerika Kolleg (Latin American College) and Goethe-Institut. After finishing his studies there, he went in search of cultural and historical knowledge and visited thirty-five countries.
In 1979, he moved to the United States. He created strong bonds in San Francisco, Miami, and Honolulu, living in the latter for more than thirty years. He graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in oceanography and marine biology.
After learning about cultural diversity by traveling, he decided to dedicate himself to the dissemination of Brazilian culture. He chose Hawaii because, like Brazil, it is rich in beauty and culture, and it receives thousands of international travelers, serving as a gateway to the rest of the world.
As the founder and CEO of the Brazilian Cultural Center of Hawaii (BCCHI), he played an important role in the Brazilian and Hawaiian communities as well as numerous projects. These include a TV program called “The Brazilian Update” (about Brazilian culture), a Portuguese language course for children and adults called Power With Aloha (POWA) at the University of Hawaii, a website of subjects important to the local communities (bcchi.org), a Brazilian-style soccer academy, and the Tropikalia Samba Show. He also provided support for local capoeira and Brazilian jiu- jitsu schools.
"I have many stories to tell.
Sometimes even I have difficult believing everything happened while I travelled the world."
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