Gilberto Dimenstein is a Brazilian journalist. He is currently a columnist at the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, of which he is also a member of the editorial council. He also keeps a column at CBN radio. Dimestein has published many works regarding human, children'a and youth rights, besides works on citizenship. For 2011 he was a Fellow at Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, where he worked in partnership with researchers at the Media Lab of MIT on an Internet program to help cities transform themselves into learning communities. Dimenstein started his career at Shalom, a magazine dedicated to the Jewish community. Subsequently, he worked in Veja, Jornal do Brasil, Correio Braziliense, Última Hora. For his reporting on social issues and his experiences with educational projects, Gilberto Dimenstein was named by Época magazine in 2007 as one of the hundred most influential figures in the country. Among the many awards he has won are the National Award for Human Rights along with D

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