Meet Shana

Shana Pereira’s life is a living canvas of resilience, leadership, and divine purpose. A global strategist and cultural diplomat with a history of leading award winning campaigns for world class brands, she has also survived the impossible: a total kidney and heart failure, clinical death, and a Christmas Day double organ transplant. Commissioned during her near death experience to build a church that unites people of all faiths, Shana founded Halibur, with the vision of it being the world’s largest online interfaith sanctuary. Her work blends Timorese heritage, Indigenous wisdom, Catholic roots, and global spiritual traditions to bring people together in sacred communion. Through every challenge she remains a steadfast servant leader, honoring the sacred woman past, present, and future, and serving as an enduring testament that anything is possible.