Ronilso Pacheco

Ronilso Pacheco is a Brazilian theologian. He graduated from PUC-Rio (Catholic Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro) and holds an M.A. in Religion and Society from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Pacheco is the Program Director at ISER (Institute of Studies on Religion) and was a Professor of Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Manhattan University. Pacheco is a researcher interested in democracy, race, fundamentalism, and extremism.

He is the author of the books Teologia Negra (Black Theology) and Occupy, Resist, and Subvert. He is a frequent contributor to various media outlets in Brazil and a regular columnist for the UOL channel, where he comments on international politics and religion. Pacheco is an alumni of the Ford Foundation’s Ford Global Fellowship Program, joining its first class (2020), and a winner of the National Endowment for Democracy’s Regan-Fascell Fellowship Program (2024), with a research project on Religion, Democracy and Civic Space.