Luiza Helena de Bairros (27 March 1953 – 12 July 2016) was a Brazilian administrator and sociologist.

She was the chief minister of the Special Secretariat for Policies to Promote Racial Equality between 2011 and 2014.

[1] Bairros was born in Porto Alegre but made her political career in the state of Bahia.

[2] Bairros participated in United Nations Development Programme projects to fight racism.

[3] From 2008, she was the Bahia State Secretary of Racial Equality Promotion under governor Jaques Wagner, when she was invited by President Dilma Rousseff to join her cabinet in 2011.