Vilma Maria dos Santos Reis (born 1969) is a Brazilian sociologist and activist.

Reis is also a member of the editorial board of Brasil 247, a website and TV station, which describes itself as an independent and progressive news source.

She spent her childhood with her grandmother, Mariola Reis, in the city of Nazaré das Farinhas, near to Salvador.

At the age of 13, she moved to Salvador to study at the Colégio Central da Bahia  [pt] and to help her father, who worked as a stall holder at street festivals.

In 2020 she contributed to the founding of Coletivo Mahin – Organization of Black Women, which calls itself an anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, popular and left-wing movement.