Ana Virginia Moreira Gomes is a Labour Law Professor at the Faculty of Law of Fortaleza University, Brazil. She has a PhD. in Labour Law at São Paulo University, Brazil, and a Master in Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Toronto. Her work focuses on the regulation of informal work and protection of vulnerable workers, in special domestic workers and wastepickers. She is co-author of the book “Waste pickers and homeless people: (in) visibility and citizenship on the streets of Fortaleza”. She coordinates the Center for Studies in Labor Law and Social Security at the University of Fortaleza.