The World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA) has made many strides since its founding in 2004 at the initiative of Gustavo Lins Ribeiro. That founding was an act of great acuity, seeking to unify anthropological associations around the world into a common body. The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUEAS) had already engaged in global meetings for a century, but the WCAA sought to do this on an organizational basis. Recently, the IUAES and WCAA have been merging into the two-chambered World Anthropological Union. WCAA has been engaging in contemporary issues of anthropology through its quarterly Delegates Meetings, its semi-monthly webinars, and its in-person meetings at WAU Congresses. Brazil has long played a central role in the WCAA, through the work of Gustavo, Bela Feldman-Bianco, and other energetic contributors to WCAA’s mission. What are the ongoing global challenges world anthropology faces? One challenge remains Anglo-American hegemony. The WCAA was founded in an effort to combat this hegemony, but with global university rankings becoming all-important, along with citation indexes, Anglo-American hegemony has become even more institutionally encompassing. A second challenge lies in the Global North-Global South divide in anthropology, with the Global North paying little attention to the Global South, as if its anthropologists don’t exist: we must have an intellectually level playing field for anthropology the world over! A third challenge, as well as strength, lies in the diversity of anthropologists around the world: anthropologists in Brazil as opposed to China, for example, may have very different senses of what the discipline entails. Would it not be better if we could speak as anthropologists with a single voice? A fourth challenge lies in the increasing precarity of employment in the discipline around the world, with anthropologists easily hired and fired, with penurious wages; we thereby reproduce the global order of “haves” and “have-nots” within the discipline of anthropology itself. And yet despite these challenges, I remain confident that the global discipline of anthropology is indeed proceeding into a vibrant future. I am convinced that the best days for a global, intellectually vigorous anthropology remain ahead of us. Onto the future!