This project has played a key role in promoting literary diversity and inclusion in Brazil, earning Djamila recognition for efforts in democratizing books and reading.

Additionally, her works have achieved international attention, being translated into multiple languages, as English (Yale University Press), French (Éditions Anacaona), Spanish (Txalaparta, Mandacaru and Tumbalacasa), Italian (Capovolte) and also featured at literary festivals around the world.

In 2022, she founded Espaço Feminismos Plurais a non-profit institute in São Paulo that offers a range of free services for women in social vulnerability.

Invited to assume the Andrés Bello Chair for Visiting Professors at New York University (NYU), Ribeiro spent a semester teaching courses on the feminisms of the Global South and exploring the intersectionality of race, gender, and class through theories developed by women from that region.

In 2020, Ribeiro compiled a collection of articles and poems written by Audre Lorde, resulting in the book Sou sua irmã: Escritos reunidos e inédito.

In 2018, TEDx São Paulo hosted Ribeiro for a talk titled “Precisamos romper com os silêncios” (“We Need to Break Through the Silences”), which addressed social inclusion and justice and marked one of her first appearances with international reach.

In 2025, in an interview with the Portuguese newspaper Expresso, Ribeiro stated that the publishing house Caminho will release two volumes featuring her columns from 2019 to 2024, with the first being unveiled at the Lisbon Book Fair in June 2025.

Since 2020, Ribeiro has served as an ambassador for Johnnie Walker Brazil, co-creating and leading campaigns featuring prominent Black Brazilian feminists, such as the late Lélia Gonzalez (with her family's authorization), Carla Akotirene, and Kiusam Oliveira.

Written in accessible language and offered at an affordable price, the collection features paperback titles by Black women and men addressing contemporary issues of gender and race.

Through its initiatives, the Plurals Feminisms Space offers in-person services that include intellectual and professional training as well as free psychological, legal, literary, therapeutic, and dental support.

In 2023, with the support of Maurício Rocha, an entrepreneur and the organization's administrative director, the Instituto moved into a building in Moema, an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo.

Moreover, the Espaço has established partnerships with Casa Rosângela Rigo, the first municipal public facility dedicated to providing shelter for women experiencing domestic violence.

This initiative includes a booklet written in accessible language to help women recognize the signs of violence and locate available support, as well as a series of talks designed to raise awareness about how to handle vulnerable or risky situations.

Since its founding, the Espaço has served more than 1,000 women annually through its free support services and has brought together thousands of people at book launches and cultural events.

Her father was a dockworker, an activist in the black movement and one of the founders of the Communist Party (PC) in Baixada Santista, who first introduced her to activism; during her childhood, they would go to protests against the privatization of the Port of Santos.

Due to Ribeiro's circumstances, she decided to leave university to devote herself to her family with Donald Veronico Alves da Silva, a sports project manager in Baixada Santista whom she met at one of the Black Ball events she attended.

At the age of 27, while she was working as a secretary for the director of a company, she was accepted onto the Philosophy course at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp), on the Guarulhos campus, which was 3.5 hours from Santos.

Discovering the Simone de Beauvoir Society online, a group dedicated to the philosopher's work, she submitted an article for evaluation, seeking the intellectual exchange that was rarely found in Brazil at that time.

Her advisor was Edson Telles, a philosophy scholar and the son of Amelinha Teles, a renowned Brazilian activist with whom Djamila forged a strong connection.

In May 2016, Ribeiro was appointment as Deputy Secretary of Human Rights and Citizenship for the city of São Paulo under Mayor Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party.

Upon returning to Brazil, she attended the Planeta Brasil Festival, where Milton “Bituca” Nascimento and Criolo invited her on stage to speak out against the ecological disasters caused by the mining company Vale in Brumadinho, in the interior of Minas Gerais State.

The launch was promoted on her Instagram page through a live chat featuring Margareth Menezes, Lilia Schwarcz, Regina Casé, Taís Araújo, Camila Pitanga, Teresa Cristina, among others.

In 2023, the philosopher became the first Brazilian to speak at the UN General Assembly's Day of Remembrance for the Abolition of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a flagship event in the fight against racism.

Subsequently, Djamila joined the community of the Candomblé terreiro Ilé Àse Olùwáiyè Ni Oya, which is led by Mãe Márcia de Obaluayê.

While in Portugal, she was received at the Saramago Foundation by Pilar Del Rio and went on to launch the translation of Cartas para Minha Avó through the publisher Caminho.

In November 2024, while she was in New York City for her second semester, Djamila Ribeiro spent a week in Araraquara, in the interior of São Paulo, where she was honored as the featured writer at the Feira Literária da Morada do Sol.

She then engages in a dialogue with writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, bell hooks, Sueli Carneiro, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Conceição Evaristo.

Through these conversations, concepts such as female empowerment and intersectionality emerge, alongside discussions of racial politics and the origins of Black feminism in both Brazil and the United States.

The book deals with themes that serve to deepen the perception of structural and deep-rooted racist discrimination, making it possible to contribute to the transformation of society, based on the privilege conferred on each person.

Published by Éditions Anacaona (and later by Bazar do Tempo in Brazil), the work has been recognized for its critical insights and its contribution to broadening the discussion on Black feminism and its global impact.