Sobral, Ceará
Sobral is a municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil.
Sobral is the fifth largest municipality of Ceará, after Fortaleza. Its economy is based on agriculture, services and some manufacturing industries. The city has two public universitie ...
professor
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,
psychologist
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,
politician
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Ceará
Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...
and the current 60st
governor
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of the same state. She assumed the post after the resignation of
Camilo Santana
Camilo Sobreira de Santana (born 3 June 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He has a bachelor's degree in
agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Ceará and a master ...
.
Biography
Born in the municipality of Sobral, Ceará, Izolda Cela is the daughter of Maria Helena Cela (1928-2001), an elementary school teacher born in
Camocim
Camocim is a Municipalities danadas, municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil, founded in 1879. The population is 63,907 people (2020 estimate) in an area of .
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, Ceará, and Afonso Walter Magalhães Pinto (1916-1969), a cardiologist from Santa Quitéria.
Graduated in psychology at the
Federal University of Ceará
The Federal University of Ceará ( pt, Universidade Federal do Ceará, UFC) is a federal university with campuses in the cities of Fortaleza, Sobral, Barbalha, Russas, Quixadá and Crateús, in the state of Ceará, Brazil. UFC is a public ...
(UFC), she became academically specialized in Early Childhood Education at the State University of Ceará and also in Public Management at the Vale do Acaraú State University, where she became a
pedagogy
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teacher years later. She became a Master in Management and Evaluation of Public Education from the
Federal University of Juiz de Fora
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, in Minas Gerais. Before entering public life, Izolda worked as a school psychologist at Colégio Sobralense (1986 and 1988), was part of the pedagogical board of the Arco-Iris School (1989), and gained clinical experience in child care when working at the Integrated Development Clinic (1991-1995), all in the municipality of Sobral.
In addition, Izolda Cela is the great-niece of the painter Raimundo Cela, and she's married for over 30 years to the lawyer and former mayor of Sobral, José Clodoveu de Arruda Coelho Neto ( PT), with whom she had four children: Hilda, Luisa, Clara and Pedro.
Political life
In 2001, Izolda Cela began her political career by assuming the position of Undersecretary for Education Development in the municipal administration of Sobral, Ceará, a position she remained in until 2004. Between 2005 and 2006, she served as the Municipal Secretary of Education and, between 2007 and 2014, as Secretary of Education of the State of Ceará.
In 2014 Ceará state election, she ran for the first time as the running mate of
Camilo Santana
Camilo Sobreira de Santana (born 3 June 1968) is a Brazilian agricultural engineer and politician, affiliated to the Workers' Party (PT). He has a bachelor's degree in
agricultural engineering from the Federal University of Ceará and a master ...
( PT) for the government of Ceará. She was affiliated to the
Republican Party of the Social Order
The Republican Party of the Social Order (Portuguese: ''Partido Republicano da Ordem Social'', ''PROS'') is a political party in Brazil, founded in 2010, and officially recognized in 2013.2018 Ceará state election, Izolda ran again for the position of Vice Governor of the State of Ceará on the ticket of incumbent governor Camilo Santana. Now affiliated to the Democratic Labour Party (PDT), the ticket garnered 3,457,556 votes (equivalent to 79.96% of valid votes), winning the dispute in the 1st round of the elections.
On April 2, 2022, Santana resigned as governor to run for the Federal Senate, which made Izolda Cela the new governor and the first woman in history to command the state of Ceará.