Celebrate Heritage Month in these special tributes. I will join children and other groups in the celebrations and will speak on Reengineering Education for the Digital Age: Securing Our Legacies, Safeguarding Our Heritage at the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha’s Annual Arrival Day event on Sunday May 28 at 9 am through this link: https://www.youtube.com/@apstrinidad.
You may look forward to insightful contexts and future directions for Intercultural Education in the Post Pandemic Period and hear about new initiatives.
The presentation will subsequently also be available online through my Youtube channel so don’t forget to subscribe.
Book Signings & Exhibition
Also look out for my books and book signings at the Divali Nagar Book Exhibition on Sunday.
Additionally to order books you may make contact here or through my social channels.
Join me let’s make some change!
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Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador to address Reengineering Education for Digital Age
International Development Strategist, Educator and award-winning journalist, Dr KrisRampersad will address the topic, Reengineering Education for the Digital Age – Securing Our Legacy, Safeguarding our Heritage. The virtual event, hosted by the Arya Pratinidhi Sabha’s (APS) will be aired from 9 am Sunday May 28 2023 through the APS Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@apstrinidad.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Rampersad is an independent scholar who straddles the spheres of academia, journalism and communications, outreach and advocacy across socio-cultural, economic and political developmental challenges of the Global South and Developing World to bridge developmental gaps for participation and access. She is closely involved in solution-driven research, analyses, communications and stakeholder engagement, especially in bringing grassroots issues into the development equation. She has worked across the UN, Inter-American, EU-ACP, Commonwealth and CARICOM systems.
Dr Rampersad is a certified UNESCO Heritage and National Geographic Educator, Global Woman Tech Makers’ Ambassador, Google and Worldpulse Digital Skills Ambassador, and Island Innovators’ Ambassador. She was awarded the Trinidad and Tobago National Medal Gold for contributions to the development of women and journalism and is recognised as a pioneer in development policy blogging for new media by the UNESCO/BBC & Partners’ Communication’s Initiative, among other accolades.
She was the first sitting journalist/editor in the Caribbean and first in her family to complete a PhD. She holds PhD in Humanities, encompassing developmental studies of post-colonial societies with a diploma in Mass Communications from the Jawaharlal University/Indian Institute of Mass Communications. She is a Fellow of Foreign Press Centre of Japan, University of Cambridge and a Commonwealth Professional Fellow.
Her dissertation tracks the migration, settlement, adaptation and processes of society-formation. It has since published as Finding a Place which is considered groundbreaking in international contexts of tracing identity-retrieval from distorted colonial knowledge systems. It is now being redeveloped for multimedia as are other elements of the educational research and she is inviting investments for this initiative. Contact her to discuss how you can get involved.
Dr Rampersad is also the author of the highly acclaimed LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction, a springboard for engaging all ages – she says from ages 3 to 103 in literature and cultural appreciation beyond the textbooks through live events and tours aimed at cultivating heritage appreciation and to develop Caribbean Literary & Heritage Tourism.
She authored Through the Political Glass Ceiling that captures the ascension to office of the First Woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and I the Sky & Me the Sea – The Adventures of Munnie Butterfly and Danny Dragonfly, the first of a Caribbean EcoCultural Adventure Fable Series.
Now focusing in reshaping education for the digital age, she pioneered the newest creative genre, the MultiMedia MicroEpic during the Pandemic lockdown. It adapts the long form classical epic for short form new media.
Dr Rampersad has long experience in multilateral relations and served as President of the UNESCO Education Commission, as an Independent Member of the UNESCO InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage. She was the first UNESCO ICH educator/facilitator for the English speaking Caribbean and was actively involved in local to international stakeholder engagement processes that significantly augmented the Caribbean presence on UNESCO Lists – World Heritage sites for Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Reggae on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Registry, and enlisting of Port of Spain, Nassau, Kingston as UNESCO Creative Cities.
She has trained, guided, mentored and worked with many of the diverse cultural communities of the Caribbean from indigeneous peoples to the more recent migrant communities, devising innovative user-responsive mechanisms for communicating culture-centred development for Latin America and the Caribbean, Small Islands, the Global South and the Developing World.
Find out more at Website www.krisrampersad.com. LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter @kisramp