Gasodá Suruí is an Indigenous member of the Paiter people (meaning "real people"). They are also known as the Suruí of Rondônia and belong to the Gãmeb (Black Wasp) group, one of the four clans that compose Paiter Suruí society. The son of Ikon Suruí (in memoriam) and Dona Manganogan Suruí, he was born on August 1, 1979, in the Nambekod Abada Kibah Village—also known as the Contact Village, now referred to as Line 12 within the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Territory in Cacoal, Rondônia. He currently resides in Paiter Village, Line 09. He is married to Maria Leonice Tupari and is the father of Mapid Eitxa Elewa Paiter Suruí and Oyapangawaron Paiter Suruí. He holds a degree in Tourism from the São Lucas University Center in Porto Velho, Rondônia, and earned both his Master's and Doctorate in Geography through the Graduate Program in Geography at the Federal University of Rondônia (PPGG/UNIR). Gasodá Suruí is the founder of the Paiter Wagôh Pakob Indigenous Cultural Center, which in the Tupi-Mondé language spoken by the Paiter people, means "The Force of Nature." As an Indigenous researcher, he is affiliated with GENTEH (Geography, Nature, and Human Territoriality) research groups at PPGG/UNIR and the Science Panel for the Amazon (SPA). He is the State Superintendent for Indigenous Peoples in the Government of Rondônia.