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Erika Hilton is the first black and trans-Federal Deputy elected in the history of Brazil. In SP, it received 256,903 votes, being the 9th most voted in the state. Currently, she is the Leader of the Psol-Rede Bench, president of the Mixed Parliamentary Front for Citizenship and LGBTI+ Rights of the National Congress, and vice-president of the Commission on Human Rights, Minorities and Racial Equality. Furthermore, she was a member of the Commission that investigated the coup attacks on January 8, 2023, in Brazil. She was the president of the Human Rights Commission of the São Paulo City Council in 2012 and 2022, during her term as councilor of the city of São Paulo, having received the most votes in the 2020 municipal elections. In the city, she was the author of the Law that created the Municipal Fund to Combat Hunger and presided over the first CPI that investigated the origins and causes of violence against trans and transvestite people. Erika was named twice by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 leaders of the new generation, in 2021 and 2023, she entered the list of the 100 most influential people of African descent in the world and one of the five global activists awarded for her fight to defend the LGBTQIA+ community by the MTV European Music Awards."