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Caribbean Partnerships II: Co-Constructing Transformative Economic Policy Exploring a Heterodox and Feminist Approach

23-25 May 2016, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

PARTICIPANT LIST

Peggy Antrobus Dr. Peggy Antrobus is a founding member and the Founding member former general coordinator of Development Alternatives DAWN with Women for a New Era (DAWN). She was Director of the Women’s Bureau in the Office of the Prime Minister in (1975–77) and was appointed in 1984 to the post of Advisor on Women’s Affairs to the Government of Jamaica (later renamed Director of the Women’s Bureau). Peggy pursued studies in Economics at the Bristol University in the UK and Social Work at the Birmingham University. Her PhD in was obtained from the University of Massachusetts.

Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe Malaika Brooks-Smith-Lowe is Co-founder and Director Co-Founding Director of Groundation and Co-founder/Managing Groundation Grenada Instructor at Spice Harmony Yoga. Grenada She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Studio Art from Smith College and a Masters of Arts with Distinction in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Through both teaching yoga and working with organizations striving for social change, Malaika is focused on developing supportive environments to facilitate growth.

Mareeca Brown Mareeca Brown is the Gender Specialist at the Planning Gender Specialist Institute of Jamaica. Her responsibilities include Planning Institute of Jamaica providing advice on the formulation of gender-sensitive Jamaica policies in the context of the cultural realities, supporting the integration of gendered perspectives in all aspects of the work of the Planning Institute and providing advice on the formulation of gender-sensitive policies in the context of cultural realities.

Mareeca holds a Master of Science Degree in Gender and Development Studies and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in

History and Archaeology. Lavern Browne Lavern Browne joined the staff at the Ministry of Social Senior Programme Officer Transformation in 2007 and has been the Secretary to Ministry of Social Transformation five (5) Permanent Secretaries. After receiving further Antigua and Barbuda qualifications, Mrs. Browne was transferred to the Department of Social Policy, Research and Planning in May of 2015, where she currently holds the position of a Social Development Programme Officer (ag).

Marsha Caddle Marsha Caddle is an economist who specializes in human Specialist, Governance & Technical Cooperation development and institutional economics. Before joining Development Bank the Caribbean Development Bank, Marsha worked as the Barbados Program Manager for UNDP’s Poverty Reduction Program. Her work and research focuses on poverty

measurement, social protection, labor market analysis, feminist economics, statistics and economic governance.

Ian Durant Ian Durant is currently Deputy Director of the Deputy Director, Economics Department Economics Department of the Caribbean Development Caribbean Development Bank Bank. He has done research on debt sustainability and Barbados debt restructuring, and has worked on policy-based loans for Caribbean countries that involved debt restructuring. Prior to joining CDB, Ian worked in the Research Department of the Central Bank of Barbados. He also worked at the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC) as Macroeconomics Adviser, where he managed technical assistance and capacity building in the area of macroeconomic programming and policy. Ian has a B.Sc. from the University of the West Indies, Barbados and a M.Sc. from the in the UK.

Shurdel Garcia Shurdel Garcia is an Agricultural Assistant I at the Agricultural Assistant I Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Trinidad and Ministry of Agriculture, Land, and Fisheries Tobago. Her primary responsibilities include assisting the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry with the Agricultural Incentive/Farmers Registration Programmes, technology transfer to farmers and the development of a Livestock Extension Programme.

She holds a B.Sc in Agricultural Science and Environmental and Natural Resource Management, and a M.Sc in Tropical Animal Science and Production with Distinction, from the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. www.cavehill.uwi.edu/gender ~ [email protected] www.daghammarskjold.se/regions-refocus ~ [email protected] www.caribank.org ~ [email protected] www.fes.de/GPol/en/index.htm 2

Gia Gaspard Taylor Gia Gaspard Taylor is a national of Trinidad and Coordinator / President Tobago, and currently serves as the President of the Network of Women Rural Producers Network of Rural Women Producers of Trinidad and Trinidad and Tobago Tobago.

She holds a BSc in Social Work from the School of Continuing Studies, University of the West Indies and has had many years of experience working in both the public and private sector in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as within the diplomatic corps.

Radhaka Gualbance Radhaka Gualbance is Deputy Chair of Movement for Deputy Chair Social Justice. She is also Managing Director of a 17-year- Movement for Social Justice old beauty business, and Director of National Trinidad and Tobago Commission for Self Help Limited, a state-owned company that works with poor individuals and communities. Radhaka serves as a consultant on evaluation and research, and has just concluded an evaluation of a micro-enterprise poverty reduction government programme. She has been employed by the government of Trinidad and Tobago as a Coordinator for Poverty Reduction, as a researcher into homelessness, and as a high school teacher. Radhaka spent many years as a human rights activist with Amnesty International and

is involved in varying levels of community activities.

Dwayne A. Gutzmer Dwayne Gutzmer is Manager of the Enterprise-Wide Manager Risk Management and Financing Unit at the Institute of Institute for Law and Economics Law and Economics, with direct responsibilities for the Jamaica Business Entrepreneurial Empowerment Programme (BEEP).

He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computing and Information Technology from the University of Technology, Jamaica, and a Masters in Business Administration with special focus in Finance from the University of Wales.

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Tonya Haynes Tonya Haynes is a lecturer at the Institute for Gender Lecturer and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: University of the West Indies. She primarily researches Nita Barrow Unit in the area of Caribbean feminist thought and recently University of the West Indies, Cave Hill completed a research project on gender-based violence in Barbados the Caribbean. She is a founding member of CODE RED for gender justice and CatchAFyah Caribbean Feminist Network. Through these organisations she works with feminists from the Caribbean and Latin America on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights and gender, economic and environmental justice.

Gabrielle Hosein Gabrielle Hosein is a lecturer at the Institute for Gender Lecturer and Development Studies, UWI, St. Augustine. Her main Institute for Gender and Development Studies: research areas are gender, governance and politics, and St. Augustine Unit Caribbean feminisms. She has been involved in creative University of the West Indies forms of Caribbean feminist movement building for Trinidad and Tobago almost twenty years and her column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, is published weekly in the Trinidad Guardian.

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Michele Irving Michele Irving has been a community worker and Coordinator advocate for 25 years. In addition to coordinating Productive Organisation for Women in Action POWA, she is currently employed as the Women’s (POWA) /CatchAFyah Development Officer for the Stann Creek District by the Belize Ministry of Human Development and Social

Transformation and Poverty Alleviation. Her interests include women in politics, gender and development, and the advancement of girls’ participation.

Isiuwa Iyahen Isiuwa Iyahen is Programme Specialist with the UN Programme Specialist (Economic and Political Women Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean. She Leadership) manages the agency’s Economic Empowerment and UN Women Multi-Country Office for the Statistics portfolios and, in partnership with counterparts Caribbean from UNICEF, is a Lead Manager of the UN Joint Barbados Programme on Social Protection for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. She has over 13 years of experience in international development, and has served in various capacities within the United Nations system and non- governmental organisations at national, regional and international levels.

Isiuwa has a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Swarthmore College.

Jason Jackson Jason Jackson is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the The Wharton School and The Lauder Institute Management Department at the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania and The Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania.

His research focuses on the historical origins and evolution of the institutional arrangements that shape relations between business and the state, and assesses the implications for economic policy, firm strategy and market competition.

Jason completed a Ph.D. in Political Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), holds an AB in Economics from Princeton University, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Farmala Jacobs Executive Director Directorate of Gender Affairs Antigua and Barbuda

Akilah Jaramogi Akilah Jaramogi serves as Project Manager of Fondes Fondes Amandes Community Re-forestation Amandes Community Re-Forestation Project, an Project (FACRP) initiative in St. Ann’s Trinidad, focused largely on Trinidad and Tobago environmental issues, but also on the social issues which are interconnected with environmental degradation. The underlying objective of the Project is the development of the community and the upliftment of its residents through environmentally enhancing activity. Akilah directed a documentary about her work with FACRP, Earth, Water, Woman.

Ernesto Kesar Movement for Social Justice Trinidad and Tobago

Ida Le Blanc Ida Le Blanc is the General Secretary of the National General Secretary Union of Domestic Employees and holds the position of National Union of Domestic Employees trustee of National Trade Union Centre. She sits on the Trinidad and Tobago working group for women and work of the Economic Social and Cultural Rights Network, and previously served on the Civil Society Advisory Group to UN Women for the Caribbean and the Minimum Wages Board.

She has coordinated many programs in collaboration with ILO, UN Women and other agencies to empower domestic workers and other low income workers by training them in grievance handling, negotiation, organizing, recruiting, and raising awareness on their rights and entitlements in the workplace. www.cavehill.uwi.edu/gender ~ [email protected] www.daghammarskjold.se/regions-refocus ~ [email protected] www.caribank.org ~ [email protected] www.fes.de/GPol/en/index.htm 6

Valerie Leon Valerie Leon is the current Director of Budget at the Director of the Budget Ministry of Finance, St. Lucia. She holds a Bachelor of Ministry of Finance Science Degree in Accounting from UWI, Mona and a St. Lucia Master of Business Administration with concentrations in Finance and International Studies from the University of Western Illinois. She is also a project Management Professional.

Ms. Leon has over thirty years’ experience as a Public Servant and has amassed a wealth of experience in public sector policy administration and project management, having served as Deputy Permanent Secretary in five different ministries including the Ministry of Sustainable Development, Energy Science and Technology which she also headed for a short period of time as well as the Ministry of Health and Gender relations.

Don Marshall Don D. Marshall is Director of the Sir Arthur Lewis Director Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and University of the West Indies: Cave Hill. Don acquired a Economic Studies (SALISES) Ph.D. in International Political Economy from the University of the West Indies: Cave Hill University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. in 1996. Barbados He was promoted to Senior Fellow in August 2005 and his current research projects focus on: the globalisation phenomenon, offshore financial centres, scientific finance as a discourse, industrial policy issues, and Democracy and Governance in the Eastern and wider Caribbean.

Sandra Massiah Sandra Massiah started a trade union career as an activist Sub-Regional Coordinator and executive member of the National Union of Public PSI-Caribbean Workers (NUPW) in Barbados and has worked as a Barbados Research and Marketing Officer with the Export Development Corporation in Barbados, Caribbean project coordinator for the Commonwealth Trade Union Council (CTUC).

In 2002 she joined Public Services International (PSI) as sub-regional secretary for the Caribbean. Sandra is an Economist and also has training and interests in

marketing, journalism, investment analysis, communications and strategic planning.

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She holds a Certificate in Public Financial Management from Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, and has had leadership training with Duke University Executive Leadership Program (USA.)

Anne-Marie Mohammed Dr. Anne-Marie Mohammed is Head, Department of Head, Department of Economics Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Faculty of Social Sciences the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Anne-Marie attained her B.Sc. (First Class Honours), Trinidad and Tobago M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine in 1997, 2000 and 2008 respectively. As part of the split-site Ph.D. programme she spent one year at New York University supervised by Professor William J. Baumol. Her current research interests include industrial economics, economics of crime, economics of regulations and applied microeconomics.

Paula Morgan Paula Morgan is Senior Lecturer and Head of the IGDS. Head Her primary focus has been gender issues in Caribbean Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Literature and Culture. She has published numerous St. Augustine Unit articles on domestic violence, the interface of ethnic and University of the West Indies gender relations, the construction of Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago masculinities and pedagogical approaches to literary and popular discourses. Her PhD thesis in English was entitled A Cross-cultural Study of the Novel of Black Female Development: A Comparative Reading of Women Writers from Africa, The Caribbean and North America, while her MPhil thesis in English was entitled The Love Relationship: A Study of Male–Female Interaction in Selected West Indian Authors.

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Shantal was selected as one of the 1,000 most influential leaders in the Commonwealth.

Anita Nayar Anita Nayar is Director of Regions Refocus, an initiative Director that co-constructs progressive and feminist policies with Regions Refocus civil society, governments, sub-regional alliances, and the India/USA UN. She has worked nationally and internationally on issues including women’s human rights, economic globalization, development, and climate justice.

Most recently she served as Chief of the UN Non-

Governmental Liaison Service in New York and on the

Executive Committee of the South-based feminist

network, Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN). Anita coordinated the Women’s Caucus in six major UN Conferences of the 1990s, bringing a gender perspective to bear on inter- governmental agreements.

Angelique Nixon Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is a writer, artist, teacher, Lecturer scholar, activist, and poet, born and raised in The Institute for Gender and Development Studies: Bahamas. She strives through her activism, writing, and St. Augustine Unit art to disrupt silences, challenge systems of oppression, University of the West Indies and carve spaces for resistance and desire. The Bahamas/Trinidad and Tobago Angelique holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida (2008), where she specialized in Caribbean and African diaspora literatures, Caribbean and postcolonial studies, women’s studies and gender research.. Her current research areas include feminist praxis and discourse, Caribbean sexualities, sexual labour and social justice movements. She is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies.

www.cavehill.uwi.edu/gender ~ [email protected] www.daghammarskjold.se/regions-refocus ~ [email protected] www.caribank.org ~ [email protected] www.fes.de/GPol/en/index.htm 9 Kyra Paul Kyra Paul is Director of the Bureau of Gender Affairs Director, Bureau of Gender Affairs within the Ministry of Social Services, Family and Gender Dominica Affairs of the Commonwealth of Dominica. She recently completed a PhD in Social Policy with the University of the West Indies, Cavehill Campus and holds certificates in Gender and Development and Climate Change. Her

work and research focuses on social capital, crime prevention, community restorative justice, poverty and gender.

Keir Alekseii Roopnarine Keir holds a BSc. Molecular Biology and an MSEd with a Hindu Women’s Organisation specialty in Learning Sciences and Technologies from the Trinidad and Tobago University of Pennsylvania. After a successful career in

research, Keir co-founded Smart Aleks Education Ltd., to change the world by changing lives one child at a time.

Keir has had a lifelong involvement in advocacy and social change through the Hindu Women’s Organisation, and was the main organizer/licensee for TEDxYouth @QueensParkSavannah. In the realm of advocacy, she works against gender-based violence and supports education for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Keir earned in 2015.

Cäcilie Schildberg Dr. Cäcilie Schildberg coordinates the Gender-Equal Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Approaches to Globalisation project. She also works on Germany the issue of Global Social Justice and is responsible for the corresponding internet portal. Prior to this, she worked as an assistant in the FES Argentina office and conducted the European Seminars of the Academy for Social Democracy. Cäcilie Schildberg studied history, political sciences and romance studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and did her doctorate on a European policy subject.

Attillah Springer Attillah Springer is a Trinidad born writer, stickfighter in Director training and has been a flag woman for Phase 2 Pan Idakeda Group Groove and 3 Canal’s Jouvay band. She wrote a column Trinidad and Tobago covering a range of social, environmental and women’s issues for the Trinidad Guardian from 2002–2013.

Ms. Springer is an environmental activist and has organized events around industrialisation versus sustainability in rural Trinidad since 2005, using Carnival and other indigenous festival arts as forms of protest or awareness building. She is also a Director of Idakeda Group, a collective of women in her family creating cultural interventions for social change especially among women and youth in socially vulnerable communities in Trinidad and Tobago, and has worked extensively as a workshop facilitator and coordinator on a variety of projects.

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Maja Stilling Maja Stilling joined Regions Refocus after graduating Program Assistant Columbia University with a Master’s degree in Human Regions Refocus Rights, with a gender concentration. Prior to attending Sweden Columbia, Maja worked with corporate social responsibility in Sweden. Maja holds a B.A. in political science and sociology from Kenyon College.

Kathryn Tobin Kathryn (“Katie”) Tobin co-founded Regions Refocus Policy Coordinator with Anita Nayar in 2014. Before that, she worked as Regions Refocus communications and programme associate for the United USA Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service and consulted on advocacy and policy analysis for several civil society organizations on sustainable development, conflict resolution, and women’s rights.

Katie has a Bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies from Barnard College of Columbia University and a Master’s from School of Oriental and African Studies (London).

Ozzi Warwick Ozzi Warwick is Currently the Chief Education and Secretary Research Officer of the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union Joint Trade Union Movement and the Secretary of the Joint Trade Union Movement of Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago. He is also a founding member of the Movement for Social Justice and is General Secretary of the Party, a position he has held since the formation of the Party in 2010. He has been a political and social activist for over 20 years and is deeply committed to greater pan-Caribbean integration. As a trade unionist, social and political activist, Ozzi has participated in numerous national, regional and international forums and meetings. He hosts a weekly radio programme on the country’s most popular talk radio station.

Judith Wedderburn Judith Wedderburn has been a longstanding activist in Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Jamaica / gender and development in Jamaica and the wider Institute for Law and Economics Caribbean for over 20 years. She served as the Director Jamaica of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Jamaica.

Judith is also a member of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), and the Association of Caribbean Economists.

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Mariama Williams Mariama Williams is Senior Programme Officer for Senior Programme Officer, Global Governance Global Governance for Development at South Centre. for Development Programme, South Centre Jamaica

Dessima Williams Dessima Williams is the founder and director of the Director, Grenada Education and Development Grenada Education and Development Programme Programme (GRENED) (GRENED) as well as the co-founder of Grenada HAITIwomen. She has served as Ambassador of Grenada to the United Nations and as Grenada's ambassador to UNESCO and to the Organization of American States. Prior to her appointment as UN ambassador she was a professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Brandeis University.

Dessima received a PhD in international relations and a master’s degree in international development from American University and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota in international relations.

Julie Xavier Julie Xavier, PhD, is UNDP Project Coordinator of the UN Development Programme / Organisation of Multi-Dimensional Approaches to Poverty Eradication Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission Project (MDAPP) within the Social Development Unit St. Lucia (SDU), Social and Sustainable Development Division of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission. She previously conducted Gender Aware Beneficiary Assessment (GABA) of the St. Lucia Public Assistance Programme.

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