Tabata Amaral de Pontes is the daughter of Maria Renilda Amaral Pires, a domestic worker, and Olionaldo Francisco de Pontes, a bus conductor. She has a younger brother, Allan. They were raised in Vila Missionária (Pt), a poor neighborhood located in the South Zone of São Paulo, on the outskirts of the city.'Tabata Amaral: a mudança pela educação, Portal Dialogando, 21 July 2018
