She says that the phrase that best describes her is "Today I'm not very catholic", but for us it's "What is National is good", since she has been living outside Portugal for 13 years and making our culture known. Today we present Ângela, a lover of the world and the cultural diversity that exists in it.

Talking about Ângela is talking about the importance of the collective, where she shows us daily the importance of people working together, emphasizing the whole instead of focusing on the leader.

In every company she goes through she leaves her seed and plants a tree together with the team of that company, as something that is sown in a team the company will have to continue.

"I am, because we are" is the motto she brings with her.

Get to know more about Angela in this interview.

PEOPLE OF MY LAND

The Portuguese popular saying/proverb with which you most identify "Conversas fazem grandes os dias pequenos"

The Portuguese phrase that describes you is “Hoje não estou muito católica” for the bad days and “Brutal” for all the others

The Portuguese expression that is always on the tip of your tongue is "Resvés Campo de Ourique"

Favorite tradition/feast Santo António in Lisbon
Portuguese curiosity  The University of Coimbra is the seventh oldest in Europe
Favorite place I am always happy when I return to Lisbon

Place left to visit Açores

What do you consider to be the best thing about Portugal Our gastronomy

TO BE PORTUGUESE IS TO HAVE IN THE SOUL
A person My grandmother
A favorite place (already on the top, Lisbon)
A food Clams "à Bulhão Pato"
An object Table
A word "Obrigada"

A musician Ana Moura

An artist I can't choose between Paula Rego and Helena Almeida

A smell Maresia

A book The Anarchist Banker by Fernando Pessoa

A poet Matilde Campilho

A song Eu ninguém by the Clã

A thinker Boaventura de Sousa Santos

A film A Outra Margem

A restaurant Burro Velho in Batalha

A symbol The Portuguese guitar

MORE THAN A TRADITION, AN INSPIRATION
Who inspires you and why? I am inspired by people who are brave enough to face challenges, persistent and fun, because these are essential traits to be at ease with life.
Where do you get your inspiration from? Fine Arts, especially visual, plastic and performance arts.

How do you inspire others?  This one gives a lot to think about (laughs). I don't know if it counts as

inspiration, but I think the people closest to me see me as someone who is open-minded
open-minded and curious about the world.

IT IS A PORTUGUESE HOUSE, FOR SURE
5 words that describe Portugal/ Portuguese

Conviviality
Kindness
Diaspora
Atlantic
Ginjinha

NOT EVEN TO THE WALLS I CONFESS

A message for whoever is reading you right now

I like to think of cultures as a harbor, open to others, and not as forts closed in on themselves. "I am because we are" is the African Ubuntu philosophy that states that we are only what we are through our relationships with others. Extrapolating from individuals to cultures, I like to study ours through its relationship with other cultures: since the pre-Celtic Lusitanian people, we are made of many others. I like this heritage, which is continuously changing.

WHAT PHRASE WOULD TAKE ON THE CHEST?
"Hoje não estou muito católica"

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