Johnatha Alves is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Guilherme Mendes, who is also a product of the Believe & Achieve grappling scholarship, being the grappling program's very first athlete to reach the prestigious rank. Alves is widely recognized as one of the top BJJ athletes of his generation, a reputation earned while competing for the Atos Jiu-Jitsu team in the lower belt divisions of the sport.