Tábata Amaral graduated in Government and Astrophysics from Harvard College. Coming from one of the poorest regions of Sao Paulo, she has co-founded VOA!, which prepares students from public schools for Science Olympiads, Acredito, a political renovation movement, and Mapa Educação, which strives to make education a priority. Tábata received McKinsey’s Next Generation Women Leader Award in 2017 and Glamour’s Women of the Year in 2018. She met Barack Obama in 2017 and Malala Yousafzai in 2018. Tábata was elected Federal Deputy to represent the state of Sao Paulo and the Democratic Labor Party with 264,450 votes and was the 2nd most voted woman in Brazil.