Dr Kris Rampersad Connecting GLoCal Cultures Education Gender Mainstreaming Thru Media

Dr Kris Rampersad is Connecting GLoCal Cultures – Global to Local Latin American and Caribbean and related diasporas across the developed and developing arenas at the Leaves of Life GLoCaL Knowledge Pot.

Dr Kris Rampersad is an independent international multimedia, multicultural, multistakeholder Educator, Journalist, Strategist, Publisher, Producer, Facilitator Consultant.

The Short Story

Dr Kris Rampersad is an independent international scholar, award-winning journalist, global thought leader and consultant who 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.

Creator of the newest creative genre – the MultiMedia MicroEpic

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.

The MultiMedia MicroEpic adopts and adapts 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.

CEIBA-EDUtainment – Where Education Meets Entertainment

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.

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Founder of Leaves of Life

Dr Kris Rampersad is founding Director of Leaves of Life, a registered non profit devoted to developing the Knowledge IP, Literary and Heritage arenas through gender and culture sensitive knowledge creation to communication to grow respect and appreciation for the diverse indigeneous, folk and migrant cultural and creative heritage of Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and aligned diasporas across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific and for Small Islands, the developing world and the Global South.

Her vision and work straddle the spheres of media, culture and education as agents of knowledge transmission and socialisation. Her focus is on forging interconnections between traditional-cultural, conventional – radio/TV/print – and new media as tools to advance the developmental agendas of the Caribbean and Latin America and their diasporas encompassing Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Americas, SIDS and the developing world.

Integrated Knowledge Transmission – Media Culture Education

She aims at a seamless continuity from knowledge creation to transmission and communication and collaboration across sectors to bridge development silos by bringing together main agents in traditional non formal community, NGO based actors and formal policy, corporate, academic and media practitioners.

In response to the Pandemic panic over the imperative for digital education, she created the MultiMedia MicroEpic as a new creative genre that adapts the long form classical epic for new media. It was introduced to the Commonwealth Scholars’ Forum in 2021.

Synopsis

Multimedia consultant, educator, facilitator, outreach & advocacy specialist, publisher & producer engaged in cross-disciplinary, intersectoral and multistakeholder integration of gender, culture & eco-sensitive approaches to sustainable development.

Work includes the seamless continuum from agenda-setting to development of strategies, policies and action planning for re-envisioning development agendas and programme actions, multisectoral partnerships and institutional strengthening, as well as development and delivery of knowledge programmes and actions for social transformation and socio-cultural behavioural change, outreach and advocacy.

Synergises traditional & popular cultural & multimedia forms, perspectives & approaches in agenda setting, policy development & critique, outreach and education.

Devises innovative models, modules and materials for education to engage multisectoral interests across disciplines to break development silos, across generations and formal and non formal sectors.

Education

Dr Kris Rampersad holds PhD and BA First Class Honours from University of the West Indies, and the highest Patrika Award from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Mass Communications.

She is a UNESCO-trained heritage facilitator and National Geographic Educator. She is a global Woman TechMakers’ Ambassador, Google Applied Digital Skills Ambassador and Worldpulse (global gender network) Digital Ambassador.

Pioneer in the BBC/UNESCO Communications Initiative for Development Policy Blogging for New Media.

Continuous professional upgrades through Commonwealth Professional Fellowship; Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Cambridge University; and Foreign Press Centre of Japan.

Communications for Development

Participated in global think tanks for more than 15 years, particularly in mainstreaming Gender Equality & Bio-Culture Sensitivity in multilateral global to local systems of UN, Commonwealth, EU, InterAmerican, Caribbean & Latin American, CARICOM systems.

Involved in implementation of the UN 50-50 gender equality mandate and recommendations of the CEDAW Convention since the Beijing Platform for Women as a journalist and as a development specialist.

New Media Caribbean Pioneer

Harnessing such knowledge and experience into developing an online global to local knowledge facility and resource. It involves consolidating, developing and animating for multimedia education and outreach, interactive engagement and mapping of the thirty-plus- years since the Beijing Platform for Gender and Development.  This includes original research, articles, presentations, advocacy campaigns, interviews in print, tv, radio and multimedia.

An international pioneer of the field of new media education and communications for development

Trinidad and Tobago National Award, Gold for Development of Women/Journalism and have been involved in ongoing analyses of the gaps and roadblocks in gender mainstreaming, awards for journalism Pan American Health organisation and pioneer winner development policy blogging for new media – BBC/UNESCO Communications Network, Luminary award 2015, among others.

MultiMedia Journalist, Content Producer, Publisher, Filmmaker

Dr Kris Rampersad is a multimedia writer, journalist, content producer, publisher and filmmaker.

She is is an award-winning independent scholar, author and media/culture/gender empowerment specialist.

She is a certified National Geographic Educator, UNESCO cultural heritage expert facilitator, a Google Woman TechMakers’ Ambassador and Google Digital Skills Ambassador shaping inclusive societies for Sustainable Development.

Unique culture and gender sensitive models, materials

She develops unique gender and culture sensitive models and materials for integrated development into the post pandemic planet.

She integrates gender and culture sensitive approaches and perspectives into decision making, planning and actions.

Dr Kris Rampersad Pioneer and innovator in development arena

She developed and pioneered a new literary genre she has named 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.

UNESCO and National Geographic Educator PhD Scholar

Dr Rampersad is a UNESCO and National Geographic certified educator/facilitator and a Commonwealth Professional Scholar. She is also a Woman TechMakers’ Ambassador and Google Digital Skills Ambassador.

Dr Rampersad holds PhD and BA First Class Honours from the University of the West Indies, media fellowships to Cambridge University UK and the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India among other self-development and skills upgrades across a range of spheres as leadership, diversity and inclusion, gender, project management, conservation, and new media, data visualization, mapping and graphic representations.

Global to Local Recognitions Awards Achievements

Dr Kris Rampersad career and accolades span the fields of journalism, academia, the arts, culture, media and gender.

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She was awarded a National Gold Medal for the Development of Women and Journalism. Her career and accolades span the fields of journalism, academia, culture and gender.

She is a Woman Tech Makers’ Ambassador, Google Digital Skills Ambassador and Digital Ambassador for Worldpulse, an international gender network.

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.

Non Profits and Civic Empowerment

Dr Kris Rampersad Civic and Community Capacity Development NGOs Non Profits

Dr Kris Rampersad served as President of the UNESCO Education Commission.

She also served variously as Vice President of UNESCO Programmes and External Relations Commission for four consecutive terms.

She was an independent member and was voted Vice President of the Consultative Body of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). The consultative body screens applications for the UNESCO international ICH lists and registers.

She has participated in numerous think tanks of the United Nations, Commonwealth, InterAmerican Organisation of American States systems, European Union and Caribbean agencies, advising and devising solutions to global dilemmas, identifying development gaps in efforts to enhance access of small islands, the developing world, and Latin America and the Caribbean in particular to global resources. 

Dr Kris Rampersad Some Career Highlights

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Bridging Formal Non Formal and Informal Sectors for Inclusive Sustainable Development

Dr Kris Rampersad works across formal and non formal mechanisms, agencies and institutions to promote intercultural dialogue that bring communities and peoples to closer appreciation of each other.

World Natural and Cultural Heritage of

Her work spans disciplines of Education; Literature, the Arts, Culture and the Creative Sectors; Media Communications and Information; Gender Equity and Empowerment.

This includes conservation and protection of built, natural, cultural, literary and documentary heritage, oral traditions and intangible cultural heritage for indigeneous, migrant and other cultural communities.

This has enhanced the impact and ability to envision and advocate for meaningful gender and culture-sensitive approaches to sustainable development in ways that bridge and span gaps between and among fields and disciplines from agriculture, culture, industry, education, governance and ICTs for all ages and across gender divides.

Dr Kris Rampersad functions as an Independent educator, researcher, author, advocate, activist, advisor, mentor, facilitator and consultant.

Education

Dr Kris Rampersad believes strongly in informal processes of lifelong learning and education although she has spanned and excelled across formal, non formal and informal education arenas . Dr Kris Rampersad is:

She has participated numerous skills development training in and in turn conducted training in:

• Digital Skills Enhancement
• Journalism, Media, Communications, ICTs and new media
• Education, advocacy and outreach and public relations
• Diversity, multiculturalism and intercultural development,
• Intangible and tangible cultural heritage and biocultural conservation and protection,
• Leadership, policy formulation, legislative reform;
• Capacity Development and Institutional Reform;
• Fundraising, networking.
• Gender mainstreaming

Scholarships and Fellowships

• The first sitting Caribbean journalist/editor to earn a PhD.
• Holds a BA (First Class Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies Holds a Diploma in Mass Communications from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
• Received a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship from the Commonwealth Foundation/Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK;
• A Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Wolfson (Journalism) College, Cambridge University UK;
• An ITEC Scholarship to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Mass Communication;
• A Fellowship with the Foreign Press Centre of Japan, and
• A UWI Post Graduate Scholarship.

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She utilises conventional and new media modes for formal and informal transmission of knowledge for lifelong learning.

Award-Winning Journalist & Multimedia Specialist Consultant

Dr Kris Rampersad utilises a background in media and journalism and PhD in Literatures in English for interactive education and knowledge transmission in primarily in outdoor and informal environments to bridge silos and erode walls between and among cultures, societies, sectors and disciplines, connecting communities of interests through interactive tours, teas, talks and training for any age, discipline, interest or locale.

She has been actively engaged by and in international processes to transmit knowledge and train next generations, in private, public sector and NGO sectors in diversity, migration, global citizenship, international cooperation, cultural heritage, development of creative industries. She has trained and educated and helped empowerment numerous organisations and institutions and professionals in the conventional and new media environment.

Stimulating Curiosity with Novel Perspectives

She applies comparative literary perspectives and a background and PhD in Literatures in English to developmental work across the globe to bridge silos and erode walls between and among cultures, societies, sectors and disciplines. This works to connect communities of interests across formal, informal and nonformal environments through research, analyses, and knowledge sharing. She trains adults and next generation leaders to address development challenges.

Cross-Cutting Interdisciplinary Approach

Her work spans developmental fields of education, literature, culture, media and the arts, applied to economics and trade, governance and politics, labour and employment, gender mainstreaming, heritage and environment conservation and protection, religious tolerance and migration and adaptation.

She has been mapping and analyzing the cross-currents and intersections of literature, culture, media and civil society, gender and development. She provides unique insights into the socio-political and cultural impact of the transition from conventional to new media environments and the emerging fields of communications for development.

Knowledge Transmission to Next Generation Leaders

Dr Kris Rampersad is an international development educator, multimedia journalist and comparative cultural heritage specialist. She is defining our global to local – GLOC@l InterConnected Heritage.

She has been actively engaged by and in international processes to transmit knowledge and train next generations, and private and public sector stakeholders, as well as the civic, media and academic third-plus sectors in diversity, migration, global citizenship, international cooperation, cultural heritage, development of creative industries.

Global Educator 

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She has trained and educated and helped empowerment numerous organisations and institutions and professionals in the conventional and new media environment. An avid research and leader of public opinion with thousands of newspaper articles and television documentaries, and dozens of conference presentations and journal publications, she also has three published books, each involving groundbreaking research in their respective subjects.

UNESCO-trained Cultural Heritage Expert Facilitator

She is a UNESCO-trained heritage facilitator who works with grassroots and other cultural communities of interests, heritage tourism officials, agencies and institutions to identify, map and inventory heritage elements unearthed through archeology, documentation or are part of existing living heritage, to foster intergenerational respect and appreciation. She has advanced appreciation of the Convention on World Natural and Cultural Heritage and enhanced representation particularly of elements from Caribbean and Latin America on the UNESCO international lists and registers on World Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage as well as in programmes for Creative Cities, Slave, Silk and Indentured Immigrant Routes.

Explorer of Anthropology & Interconnected Intangible Cultural Heritage

An avid anthropological researcher/author on global intercultural connections spanning pre-Colombian and post-colonial periods, she facilitated heritage training of many youths and others in World Heritage and Intangible Heritage across the Americas – North/South/Central and Caribbean to expand understanding and appreciation and conducted training in Guyana, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Barbados, Grenada and St Maarten and others. She also helps general tourists as well as diplomats, tourism and heritage personnel enhance their appreciation of the value of heritage.

She had a central role in the preparation of communities, officials and nominations processes for all three Caribbean countries recently admitted to the UNESCO World Heritage lists. She spearheaded the recognition of Jamaica’s Reggae music which is now on the UNESCO Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity through early involvement with the Commonwealth, as a Caribbean representative on the UNESCO Executive Board and facilitated the Jamaica workshops on Intangible Cultural Heritage that culminated in the entry of Reggae on the UNESCO International Registry in 2018. She also facilitated the first Caribbean Youth Seminar on Intangible Cultural Heritage and several of its participants are now young leaders in culture in the Caribbean.

Gender Mainstreaming & Gender Sensitive Leadership

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For more than three decades Dr Kris Rampersad has been devoted to leveling the playing field for women and girls in pursuit of:

• Gender equality in the workplace
• The elimination of all forms of discrimination against women by the promotion of gender equity.
• Legislative and cultural reform to ensure gender equity.
• Institutional mechanisms for the advancements of women.
• Economic empowerment by overcoming marginalization, oppressive social norms access and rights to resources;
• Incentive and awards based initiatives encouraging women to fulfill their potential and
• Education- based programs, initiatives or personal action that offer and afford women broader choices & enhanced opportunities

Spokesperson Equity & Parity

She has been a spokesperson and voice for gender equity and parity for women for some three decades at national and more than 15 years at international levels, building awareness and understanding. She has also worked actively to inject creative gender sensitive approaches to achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development goals through agenda setting, policy development and decision making, leadership training, and empowerment of individuals and grassroots communities, organisations and individuals to advance efforts for gender parity.  She has further been a role model and inspiration and support for women and girls of all ages and in many fields of endeavor as a pioneer and trailblazer in her various spheres of activity.

Dr Kris Rampersad Multilateral Impact

From her work through multilateral institutions on the UNESCO Executive Board, the UNESCO General Assembly, the Commonwealth Foundation and the Organisation of American States, Dr Kris Rameprsad has not only kept the spotlight on, but also helped shape instruments to advance the rate of progress on the fulfillment of governments’ agreements related to advancement of women’s rights and gender equity at international, regional and national levels.

Towards Elimination of Gender Inequalities and Violence Against Women

There have helped inform international to national level policy and actions on fulfilment of the mandate of CEDAW – elimination of discrimination against women, eradication of gender violence and equity and equality of opportunities for women and girls through education, deconstruction of cultural norms, perceptions and representations in the media.

Her investigations, research, studies, publications and articles have highlighted hiccups in the pace materialization of women’s human rights in entrenched instruments and habits of governance, policy and the culture of decision-making.

She has also demonstrated an enormous capacity to inspire and network groups and organisations and individuals across the globe to highlight the plight of women.

Novel Approaches to Age Old Developmental Dilemmas

Highlights of such achievements in pursuit of implementation of the CEDAW recommendations for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and promotion of gender equity include:

1. Research, preparation of the pioneering comprehensive national report and spearheaded follow up action in the InterAmerican system to encourage State bodies to implement the CEDAW convention provisions and recommendations that informed the Summit of the Americas, Commonwealth and UN processes. Among these is her work for gender sensitive policy and legislation to strengthen the capacity of institutions in addressing gender inequalities as for reform to the child marriage act, gender sensitive budgeting and engendered political processes. She coordinated the outreach and advocacy for the Commonwealth Foundation’s campaign for gender equality at the Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers Meeting that fed into the Commonwealth Head of Government Meetings to build acceptance of the Commonwealth Campaign on the slogan, ‘Where’s the Money for Gender Equality.’ It spotlighted and propelled the movement of gender equity beyond rhetoric to actioning developmental programmes.
2. Her impact on gender equality in the workplace has been not just in pursuing the rights of colleagues in the workplace but for across-the-board equity in treatment, equity in promotions and remunerations; removal of discriminatory practices and revisiting entrenched notions of gender roles within social systems and cultural practices through her work with traditional and grass roots communities across the Caribbean.
3. She has herself blazed a trail for women in the media, as the first sitting editor to have completed a PhD while in the demanding and high-stressed environment of the newsroom, as well as in her actions in supporting women journalists.
4. From the inception of her career as a journalist Dr Rampersad support the global mandate for equality of women that came out of the Beijing Platform for Women, and has a substantial portfolio of articles, columns as Woman to Woman, interviews, investigations, that tell women’s personal stories of trials and triumphs, revealing discrepancies and imbalances from data, highlighting the plight of the underprivileged, unearthing inequalities in national life, in the homes and in the work place, and the campaign against domestic violence.
5. She has also been actively involved in supporting and encouraging women’s development from community to international policy arenas. Her writings, from profiles of achievements to policy critiques have encouraging women in public, civic and entrepreneurial arenas, utilizing all her roles to this end.
6. She has initiated and developed a number of awards for women.
7. As editor she partnered with the UN and other organisations to spearhead the Woman of the Year Award.
8. She conceptualized and piloted to national and international acceptance the Commonwealth Caribbean ‘Women Agents of Change’ Award, which was the forerunner to introduction of the Medals for Women in Trinidad and Tobago.

• She identified women in the media who would normally be overlooked to be recognized for the TTPBA Awards for Media Excellence.

7. She created & produced television documentaries as in the series That is Woman that features leading women figures in national life to showcase women’s achievements and have them tell their stories in their own words.
8. For the most part of the last fifteen years she has been the spokesperson on women’s issues and gender parity, shaping and supporting the work of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the Caribbean Institute for Women and the Commonwealth Women’s Organisation and the CIVICUS – World Assembly for People’s Participation.
9. She was researcher and lead spokesperson for gender equality for the OAS Active Democracy Network in the build up to and through the Fifth Summit of the Americas and presented pioneering research evaluating and assessing the levels of gender sensitivity and deficiencies of gender sensitive approaches to changing development policy agenda in areas of Freedom of Expression, Access to Information.
10. She was invited and presented ground-breaking research to the first World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) on gender sensitive deficiencies in policies for information and communication technology and has represented gender mainstreaming issues for integration into global to national level policies at UN agencies, including WSIS, UNESCO, the Commonwealth and Inter-American system.
11. In her work with the International Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, the InterAmerican Institute for Cooperation in Agriculture, and Caribbean Agriculture Research and Development Institute she integrated concepts of gender mainstreaming in agricultural outreach, and also pioneered awards for agricultural journalism, that encouraged reporting on rural women and agricultural workers. 
12. At national level, she articulated to build awareness around the Put A Woman Campaign of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women, which drew from the UN resolutions for gender parity in national decision making. It included the slogan, A Woman’s Place is in the House – Of Parliament, that saw the drive for fulfilment of the quota of women in Parliament along with women in the positions of Speaker of the House and President of the Senate. The same campaign also supported the ascension into office of the First Female Prime Minister and first Female President of Trinidad and Tobago in one decade.
13. Dr Kris Rampersad wrote the pioneering book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling (2010), that along with mapping the journey of the First Female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago through her speeches also includes revisionary research, study and analysis of the national politics of the day through gender and cultural sensitive lenses that has become a text for gender studies and analyses. She has also published several papers and articles on women’s issues.
14. These contributions spilled over to her functions in other arenas. As the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Executive Board’s Public and External Relations Commission responsible for programme actions she drove and supported motions to strengthen UNESCO’s priority focus on women and gender equality as well as for journalists and for injecting gender sensitive approaches to decision making.
15. She was herself acknowledged and featured in Hazel Ward Redman’s celebratory series as a Woman of Substance and has been featured in articles as Express Woman, Helping Dreamers Dream and Newsday Woman’s Weekly as Changing the World With Ideas.

EDUCATION OVERVIEW

Dr Kris Rampersad is:

• The first sitting Caribbean journalist/editor to earn a PhD and holds a BA (First Class Honours) degree from the University of the West Indies Holds a Diploma in Mass Communications from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
• A Commonwealth Professional Fellowship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK; and benefitted from
• A Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Wolfson (Journalism) College, Cambridge University UK;
• An ITEC Scholarship to Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Mass Communication;
• A Fellowship with the Foreign Press Centre of Japan, and
• A UWI Post Graduate Scholarship.

She has participated numerous skills development training in and in turn conducted training in:

• Journalism, Media, Communications, ICTs and new media
• Education, advocacy and outreach and public relations
• Diversity, multiculturalism and intercultural development,
• Intangible and tangible cultural heritage and biocultural conservation and protection,
• Leadership, policy formulation, legislative reform;
• Capacity Development and Institutional Refoorm;
• Fundraising, networking.
• Gender mainstreaming

Researcher, Author, Publisher

Finding a Place, (2001) closely examines migration, displacement, settlement, adaptation, inclusion through literary and socio cultural history and journalism; and LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction (2012), that presents a novel look at the interlocking of fiction and reality through literature and photography and allied implications for social inclusion and identity, a commemorative publication of the 50^th anniversary jubilee celebrations of Independence. Her book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling, (2010) explores the impact of cultural diversity and gender on socio-political and economic development, mapping the rise of the first woman Prime Minister in Trinidad and Tobago and the growth of gender leadership consciousness.

She has also founded and facilitated edited and written and supervised several academic and other publications and productions, and the development and creation of works by many individuals and organisations in the media and creative spheres.

Leaves of Life

Her interactive, fun, enjoyable and educational Leaves of Life initiatives as LiTTours, LiTTributes, LiTTeas, LiTTalks and LiTTevents across global communities inspire intergenerational respect between youth and elders for the promotion of appreciation of cultural heritage, knowledge transmission, and tourism, inspired by her book LiTTscapes. – Landscapes of Fiction.

Awards & Accolades

Dr Kris Rampersad holds a National Gold Medal for the Development of Women through Journalism (2018), National Luminary Award (2015) and other media awards for social and economic commentary (1987), Excellence in Health Journalism from the World Health Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation (1994).

Her blog, Demokrissy was named winner of the BBC/UNESCO Communication Initiative for Policy Blogging in New Media (2011) and is considered a resource in developmental, educational, and cultural matters among global think tanks. It feeds into several other international blogging and other new and social media networks.

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  Toxic Politics Petticoat Obsession US Election Knickers A-Twist in Race To The Polls A Woman’s Place When America Sneezes
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  What Really Happened On the Road to Guyana? Wanted! A New Journalism for A New Development Agenda – With BBC Gone#3
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  Dirty Lyrics CARICOM@50 Guyana President jams on opaque data culture-Impact the Future Women Techmakers Happy IWD!
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  Peace Talks to Change LAC Agenda – Region Poised For New Era of Development?
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  A New Agenda for Guyana-Venezuela Talks – Open Letter to Comrade Gonsalves & Peace Brokers from Limboing to Parranda-ing & Junkanooing on the Borderline
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  Prompt Action Needed as UN Security Council, CARICOM hold Emergency Meet on Venezuela; Maduro’s Land Grab threat to Guyana may escalate 8m refugee crisis in LAC – the Border Wars II
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• ICJ to pronounce on provisional request by Guyana Dec 1 2023
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  Brokering the Border Wars – LAC limbo on barbed lines of demarcation as Venezuela-Guyana dispute heightens
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  Critical Creative Triggers to social and economic development
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  Abused by a moody & angry AI on World Folklore Day! Taking on the Tech Giants!
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  Look Whey Pan Dey! Happy World Steelpan Day
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  Rebranded ‘Caribbean Queen of Culture’ under the World Intellectual Property Tree
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  Say Cheese! Small Island at International Chemistry Olympiad Congrats To Our LiTTle Geniuses
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  Happy Birthday Independent America
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  Arrival Day Call To Action Caribbean cultures in Danger in Digital Age
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  Safeguarding Culture in the Digital Age, Happy International Day of Diversity & Development
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  Among the 1 percent as ‘a rising creator’- new AI accolades on the cutting edge of creation
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  On the shoulders of Giants – the Unfinished Agender Happy IWD Women Techmakers Dare 2 B The Change
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  It’s LiTTscapes 10th! Let’s Celebrate Love of Reading at the Book Fair
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  Bridging knowledge gaps in digital age Happy World Teachers’ Day
  by Dr Kris Rampersad