Paula Beatriz de Souza Cruz (Taboão da Serra, 31 January 1971) is an educator, school principal and Brazilian activist for the rights of the LGBT population. She is responsible for the administration of the Santa Rosa de Lima State School, in Capão Redondo, in the South Zone of São Paulo, a position she has held since 2013.
She was the first trans principal of a public school in São Paulo. She paved the way for the inclusion of the preferred names of students who are transgender and travestis in attendance lists and class diaries.