Dr Kris Rampersad is an award-winning independent international scholar, author, journalist and media/culture/gender empowerment specialist. Dr Kris Rampersad career and service to global to local communities spans the disciplines of media and communications, culture, literature, gender and education, anthropology, international relations and diplomacy.
She straddles spheres of media, culture and education as an expert on integrated sustainable developmental issues of the CARIBBEAN, SIDS, Developing World and the Global South.
A Commonwealth Professional Fellow an Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and Indian Institute of Mass Communication, with a PhD in Pre and Post Colonial Literature, she invented the world’s newest creative genre, the MultiMedia MicroEpic.
It adopts the long-form classical epic for short-form new media which she piloted to the Commonwealth Scholars Forum at the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Her web platform, the GloCaL Knowledge Pot features her developing multimedia expositions of CEIBA-EDUtainment, novel creations that blend education and entertainment for all ages and sectors from pre-school to policy-making through traditional, conventional and new media forms.
Dr Rampersad is a National Geographic Educator, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Facilitator, Global Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador, Google Digital Skills Ambassador and Small Island Innovators’ Ambassador. Internationally, she has served variously as President of the UNESCO Education Commission, Vice President of UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission, Vice President and Independent Member of the Consultative Body to the InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Vice President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association.
Get Involved
To support, sponsor or collaborate on developing online resources in the GloCal Knowledge Pot as CEIBA-EDUtainment and MultiMedia MicroEpic interactive initiatives, new investigative research, multimedia publications and productions and digitisation of journalistic, academic and socio-cultural archives and development of online resource base You can make contact and connect through her web portal GloCaL Knowledge Pot, www.krisrampersad.com; as KrisRampersad on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest, KrisRampersad1 on Facebook and @Krisramp on X/Twitter.
Dr Kris Rampersad is widely travelled as a researcher, teacher and gender, media and heritage educator facilitator and consultant involved in shaping and sharpening focus on the development deficits and engaging with international to local agenda-setting, policy-planning, reform, training, outreach and advocacy.
Education
Dr Rampersad holds PhD and BA First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies. She is a Commonwealth Professional Scholar of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Dr Kris Rampersad also received media and cultural professional fellowships to Cambridge University, UK through the Nuffield Foundation, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication/ITEC, Foreign Press Centre of Japan and Commonwealth Professional Fellowship through the Commonwealth Foundation and Association of Commonwealth University. She has also pursued numerous self-development and skills upgrades in leadership, diversity and inclusion, gender and development, project management, conservation, new media, data visualization, mapping and graphic representations.
Global Culture Heritage & Sustainable Tourism Educator Facilitator
Dr Rampersad is a certified by the United Nations Education and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) as an Intangible Cultural Heritage expert educator, facilitator.
Dr Kris Rampersad is trained in preparing World Heritage nominations. She also has close knowledge of the range of UNESCO and other international social, cultural and gender based human rights, cultural rights, gender rights conventions, laws, policies and instruments.
Intangible Cultural Heritage Community-Based Development
Dr Kris Rampersad works and volunteers with multicultural communities across Latin America and the Caribbean. These include multi-ethno-religious and grassroots groups as the Maroons, Rastafari, Garifuna, Caribs, Arawaks, Mestizoes, Mayans, Inuit, IndoCaribbean, AfroCaribbean, Revivalists, Hindus, Muslims, Catholics, Presbyterian, Protestant, Jewish, Indian, African, Chinese, Syrian-Lebanese, and other groups across the Americas and the globe.
This resulted in admission of Reggae into the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/reggae-music-of-jamaica-01398
World Heritage Nominations
Dr Kris Rampersad prepared communities in Jamaica and provided advice and support for admission of Reggae on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. and the Blue and John Crow Mountains for the World Heritage Nomination.
This has produced visible results with the admission Blue and John Crow Mountain of Jamaica and Nelson Dockyard of Antigua and Barbuda into the UNESCO World Heritage Lists..
Jamaica Heritage Inventory Field Trip through the Blue and John Crow Mountains and secret and sacred territories of Jamaican Maroon heritage 
Co-Vice President UNESCO PX Commission Dr Kris Rampersad, Lisa Hanna cut cake to celebrate 50th Independence Anniversary Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica with ambassadors at UNESCO 
Bob Marley’s Reggae Music Road To UNESCO Intangible Heritage 
LiTTribute to the Antilles and Preparation of Nelson DockYard for UNESCO World Heritage with LiTTscapes Author Kris Rampersad 
LiTTribute to the Antilles celebrates the epic Antilles 
ultural Heritage stimulants to economic development Dr Kris Rampersad educator 
Dr Kris explore and safeguard Cuba UNESCO World Heritage/ ntangible Heritage 
Dr Kris Rampersad educator/facilitator in joint meeting of Intangible and World Cultural Heritage St Maarten
Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Culture-Trade Agreements, Creative Economy Industries
Dr Kris Rampersad has worked closely with Latin American and Caribbean Communities and world partners of the Coalitions on Cultural Diversity and U40 Network on advancing efforts at developing intercultural relations, advance discussions on the creative industries, analyse, evaluate and critique instruments of culture and trade including EU culture trade agreements as the EU-CARIForum agreements and Canadian-Caribbean cultural agreements.
National Geographic Educator Blue-Green Sustainable Economies
Dr Kris Rampersad is a National Geographic certified educator/facilitator. She has also completed several National Geographic educator, ecological project management, presentation enhancement courses. Through journalism, advocacy and outreach, she also promotes conscientious sustainable ecological and environmental initiatives.
Dr Kris Rampersad National Geographic Educator Badges Specialist SIUDS courses for preschool to policymaking 
National Geographic Educator Youth & policy development Kris RampersadGloCaL Knowledge Pot Lifelong Learning virtual Academy 
National Geographic Educator Feedback 1 
National Geographic Educator Feedback 2 
National Geographic Educator Feedback Story Science by Dr Kris Rampersad 2 
Dr Kris Rampersad Lifelong Learning GloCaL Knowledge Pot NAtional Geographic Educator feedback 
National Geographic Educator Critical Acclaim Courses 
National Geographic Educators’ Feedback Dr Kris Rampersad Integrated Lifelong Learning Courses 
Children gain integrated insights, skills and tools in problem solving novel planet challenges with Story Science Prepping PreSchoolers for Policy Making Dr Kris
Service to GLoCaL Communities
Dr Kris Rampersad has participated in numerous think tanks of the United Nations, Commonwealth, InterAmerican, European Union and Latin American and Caribbean systems devising solutions to global dilemmas and evaluating assessing development gaps in efforts to enhance access of small islands, the developing world, and Latin America and the Caribbean in particular to global resources.
Global to Local Networks
UNESCO: Dr Kris Rampersad served as President of the UNESCO Education Commission of the UNESCO General Assemble. Dr Kris Rampersad was unanimously elected to serve four consecutive terms as Vice President of the UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission (PX Commission).
Dr Kris Rampersad was Vice President of the Consultative Body of the UNESCO InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage, serving as an Independent member.
Culture, Heritage, Tourism, the Arts and Education
Dr Kris Rampersad is a member of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage facilitators’ Network.
Dr Kris Rampersad is a founding member and expert of the International Institute of Gastronomy, the Arts, Culture and Tourism (IGCAT).
Dr Kris Rampersad served as Chair of the National Commission for UNESCO
Dr Kris Rampersad was the first Chair of the National Museum and Art Gallery.
Gender
Dr Kris Rampersad is a digital ambassador for WorldPulse, an international gender-advocacy network.
Dr Kris Rampersad served as International Relations Director of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women
Media
Dr Kris Rampersad served as Vice-President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association
Dr Kris Rampersad served on the Media Complaints Committee
Dr Kris Rampersad served on the bpTT Luminaries of Journalism Committee
Dr Kris Rampersad researched and prepared shortlisted candidate profiles for the Trinidad and Tobago Publishing and Broadcasting Association Awards for Media Excellence
Awards & Accolades
Dr Kris Rampersad award for Excellence in Health Journalism Pan American Health Organisation World Health Organisation Award more at www.krisrampersad.com 
Dr Kris Rampersad founding journalist featured Newsday 25th anniversary commemorative publication more at www.krisrampersad.com 
Kris Rampersad recognised as Commonwealth gender Scholar 
Dr Kris Rampersad receives Medal for Development of Women/Journalism Gold from first woman President Paula Mae Weekes
Journalism Gender, Culture, the Arts
Dr Kris Rampersad holds a National Gold Medal for the Development of Women/Journalism.
Alternative National Award for contributions to the Media, the Arts and Culture from Global Organisation of Peoples of Indian Origin
National Award (BWIA) for Excellence in Journalism, Social & Economic Commentary
Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation Award for Excellence in Health Journalism
Writer of award winning television series Cross Country
1 Pioneer new creative genre MultiMedia MicroEpic
- Dr Kris Rampersad developed and pioneered a new creative genre – the Multimedia Micro Epic.. It adapts the traditional long-form epic for short forms of new media using multimedia tools and techniques. She presented the genre in her short biopic film, One Night To Bloom, to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission forum hosted online by the British Council on Commonwealth Day/International Women’s Day, March 8, 2021. Globalisation in Reverse was the theme of her presentation. More about the MultiMedia MicroEpic Here
- Story Science
MultiMedia Micro Epic by Dr Kris Rampersad Montage Selected Film Festival cover img 
Dr Kris Rampersad pioneerin new epic genre featured in the news 
MultiMedia MicroEpic Dr Kris Rampersad India interest wp med img 
Ma the Nonagenarian featured in mDNA MultiMedia MicroEpic by Dr Kris Rampersad 
MultiMedia MicroEpic New Creative Film Genre Features at PIFF 
Mother Continent Splintered Continent – The MultiMedia Micro Epic by Dr Kris Rampersad cover image
2. Creator of Story Science
Dr Kris Rampersad developed Story Science as her National Geographic capstone.
She also develops modules and materials for eco-cultural leadership education targeting from preschool to policy makers to unite formal, non-formal and informal gender and culture sensitive education and community-based knowledge transmission in an integrated approach to science and the arts education.
Planet Or Plastics Inside the Blue Green Story Science Creative Platform National Geographic Educator Feedback 2 National Geographic Educator Feedback Story Science by Dr Kris Rampersad 2 Children gain integrated insights, skills and tools in problem solving novel planet challenges with Story Science Prepping PreSchoolers for Policy Making Dr Kris
3. Revising Sustainable Development Agenda
Dr Kris Rampersad piloted and promoted re-envisioning the Sustaianble Development Agenda
On UNESCO Executive Board: Piloted notion to revise acronym of SIDS – Small Island Developing States to BOSS – Big Ocean Sustainable States. Now adopted by UNDP
Developed and Piloted to adoption for UNESCO Institute of Statistics to review and gather statistics on classifications of developing countries for greater equity
Supported introduction of Indentured Indian Immigrant Routes programme.
Pioneered Caribbean Eco-Sensitive Environment and Development through columns and article series Environment Friendly
