Luzenir Caixeta works as a social scientist in self-organized political contexts. She is a co-founder and team member at maiz, where she is, among other things, responsible for the coordination of the counseling center and the research department. In addition to that, she is a co-designer of the Universität der Ignorant_innen (University of the Ignorant), a "space" of critical engagement with knowledge production, which is oriented both locally / regionally, as well as transregional / transnational.