Gui Mohallem is a visual artist and an Executive Director of Instituto Plena Cidadania (Full Citizenship Institute), a Brazilian organization strengthening democracy by broadening who gets to participate in it. Gui co-leads the institution with Bru Pereira, guiding teams across participation, representation, protection, and intelligence production, and linking community practice to institutional change. As an artist, Gui’s method is to look sideways at political problems and prototype unlikely combinations. They build bridges between datasets and stories, code and care, grassroots and institutions—turning evidence into tools and culture. In writing and talks, Gui explores the power of intersectional leadership and shares practical ways to make institutions more responsive to those historically excluded.
Organization vision: A world where democracy is shaped by those historically excluded from power, making full citizenship possible for all people.
Instituto Plena Cidadania (IPC) is a Brazilian organization broadening access to political power. Founded in 2014 as VoteLGBT, IPC starts from queer experience as a launchpad for democratic innovation, developing solutions that can strengthen democracy more broadly.
Over twelve years, IPC has learned that expanding democracy requires infrastructure. It creates tools, knowledge, networks, and forms of care that help people historically excluded from power enter democratic life, remain safe, and turn representation into effective power. Its work moves between grassroots experience and institutions, translating evidence into practical responses to democratic barriers.
Through partnerships in Brazil and across Latin America, IPC develops and adapts this infrastructure to different political realities. It works from a simple premise: expanding who can participate in democracy can expand what democracy is capable of doing.
