Legal Outreach, Inc.

Saturday Writing Class (SWC) Junior Instructor

• Provide writing instruction to a class of high school juniors (class size - 12 students) at Legal Outreach’s Saturday Writing Academy as a part of their College Bound program.
• Lead classes on thesis development and writing pedagogy for the construction of college-level research and persuasive essays.
• Prepare and deliver effective and creative lesson plans which are aligned with Legal Outreach’s curriculum. Culminating projects include three (3) essays on topics such as: gender, sex and sexuality and income inequality in the United States.
• Manage students’ progress in the class; effectively provide feedback and address students’ questions and concerns so as to ensure that students are actively learning and progressing in the course.
• Collaborate with the Director and other Instructors to review and design lesson plans.
• Grade all assignments and provide feedback to students; report students’ assessments.
• Utilize Moodle to effectively manage and support teaching, course work/assignments, readings and class announcements.

Brooklyn College

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department/Caribbean Studies/Women Studies

• Course lecturer of the following courses: - Introduction to Women Studies; Caribbean Societies in
Perspective; Major Themes in Caribbean Studies; Special Topics in Caribbean Studies –
Constructions of Gender in Caribbean History and Society; Introduction to the Caribbean; The
Caribbeanization of North America.
• New course development - Special Topics in Caribbean Studies – Constructions of Gender in
Caribbean History and Society (WGST 3550/ AFST 3390/CAST 3900) – which was approved by
Department Chair and undergraduate curriculum development committee in Fall 2015. Course
taught in Spring 2016 and 2017.
• Develop syllabi for all courses which reflect the goals of the courses.
• Provide the necessary framework for students to develop the ability to think critically about major
contemporary issues as they relate to the concepts and theories taught in the course.
• Facilitate and grade all course work and final assignments.
• Utilize Blackboard to effectively manage and support teaching, course work/assignments, readings
and class announcements.

New Jersey City University

Adjunct Lecturer

• Course lecturer of the following Tier One course in the General Education program - Diversity and
Difference: Identities, Communities and Cultures
• Develop syllabus and set goal of the course as per the General Education program.
• Deliver all lectures and provided the necessary framework for students to develop the ability to
think critically about the concepts and theories taught in the course.
• Facilitate and grade all course work and final assignments.
• Utilize Blackboard to effectively manage and support teaching, course work/assignments,
readings, and class announcements.

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Ethnic Studies

• Course lecturer of the following course: The Black Man in Contemporary U.S. Society
• Develop syllabus and set goal of the course: to explore the historical, social, political and psychological forces affecting the lives of Back men in the U.S. today and to examine the constructions of the Black male body and Black male experiences from a gendered lens.
• Deliver all lectures and provide the necessary framework for students to develop the ability to think critically about major contemporary issues as they relate to the concepts and theories taught in the course.
• Facilitate and grade all course work and final assignments.
• Utilize Blackboard to effectively manage and support teaching, course work/assignments, readings and class announcements.

Rawwida Baksh and Associates, Inc.

Research Consultant

• Under contract to the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), conduct a Country Gender Assessment of St. Lucia.
• Gather and systematise general statistics, critical sector data, and qualitative information on gender equality in St. Lucia.
• Conduct a review of relevant CDB strategic and operational documents and interview relevant CDB staff
• Review CPAs, NPRSs, CEDAW Reports, Human Development Reports and other publications/reports on gender and development issues in St. Lucia within the context of CDB’s strategic priorities; review CDB’s documents related to the portfolio of initiatives, and the gender implications therein.
• Through a field mission, facilitate formal discussions/interviews with key internal and external stakeholders to obtain perspectives on gender and development issues and approaches to addressing gender mainstreaming constraints and challenges where these exist.
• Critically analyse the current legal, political and institutional framework for gender equality and review the status of implementation of the national gender policy, if available.
• Undertake an in-depth assessment on St. Lucia’s national capacity for institutionalising gender equality in mainstream processes
• Undertake a detailed gender analysis of the Micro Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (MSME) sector/private sector. .
• Identify constraints and pinpoint opportunities and risks for CDB to promote gender equality as a means of enhancing the effectiveness of its development programmes in its focus on economic growth and poverty reduction; and
• Edit country gender assessments (CGAs) of the social, economic and governance sectors in the following CDB borrowing member countries (BMCs): Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
• Draft the Regional/Overview CGA outlining all major gender differentiated trends, critical/emerging gender issues from the CGAs

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Country Gender Assessment - St. Lucia

Caribbean Development Bank

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Lucia was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as part of an initiative to update the CGAs for Anguilla, Belize and St. Lucia that had been completed in 2012. In implementing the CDB’s 2008 Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), the assessments not only inform CDB’s support to the specific Borrowing Member Countries but also contribute to advancing gender equality in the Caribbean region.

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Country Gender Assessment - St. Lucia

Caribbean Development Bank

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Lucia was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as part of an initiative to update the CGAs for Anguilla, Belize and St. Lucia that had been completed in 2012. In implementing the CDB’s 2008 Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), the assessments not only inform CDB’s support to the specific Borrowing Member Countries but also contribute to advancing gender equality in the Caribbean region.

Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution

Caribbean Review of Gender Studies

“Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS). IGDS Gold: Advancing Caribbean Feminist Scholarship. Issue 10. 2016. 93-114.

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Country Gender Assessment - St. Lucia

Caribbean Development Bank

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Lucia was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as part of an initiative to update the CGAs for Anguilla, Belize and St. Lucia that had been completed in 2012. In implementing the CDB’s 2008 Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), the assessments not only inform CDB’s support to the specific Borrowing Member Countries but also contribute to advancing gender equality in the Caribbean region.

Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution

Caribbean Review of Gender Studies

“Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS). IGDS Gold: Advancing Caribbean Feminist Scholarship. Issue 10. 2016. 93-114.

Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations

Rowman and Littlefield

“Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations.” In Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistances and the Possibilities for Transformation in the Caribbean, edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 45-66. 2016.

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Country Gender Assessment - St. Lucia

Caribbean Development Bank

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Lucia was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as part of an initiative to update the CGAs for Anguilla, Belize and St. Lucia that had been completed in 2012. In implementing the CDB’s 2008 Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), the assessments not only inform CDB’s support to the specific Borrowing Member Countries but also contribute to advancing gender equality in the Caribbean region.

Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution

Caribbean Review of Gender Studies

“Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS). IGDS Gold: Advancing Caribbean Feminist Scholarship. Issue 10. 2016. 93-114.

Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations

Rowman and Littlefield

“Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations.” In Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistances and the Possibilities for Transformation in the Caribbean, edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 45-66. 2016.

The People and the Revolution: in Defence of 'Twenty- First Century Socialism'

Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy

Less than a year after the death of former President Hugo Chavez, the architect of the Bolivarian Revolution, and also within the first year in office of his successor, Nicolas Maduro, opposition protests, both violent and non-violent, have punctuated the Venezuelan political and social landscape. These largely middle-class protests have sought -among other things- to destabilize the democratically elected government of Maduro, and with that, the Bolivarian Revolution. To understand these events and the continued support of the poor and working classes for the Chavez-Maduro project, one must first examine the political history of Venezuela prior to the election of Hugo Chavez and the founding of the revolution. It is through his election that a legacy of exclusionary politics ended to be replaced with a participatory and protagonistic democracy. The revolution has thus created spaces for poor and working class Venezuelan people -and, in particular, women- to exercise a new sense of citizenship, inclusion and newly politicized social roles. The deliberately non-andocentric and inclusionary constitution of 1999, along with the creation of misiones ('missions' or social programmes), have also largely benefitted the poor. It is this extension of power and citizenship to the formerly excluded which explains the enduring support for the late President Chavez, the Bolivarian Revolution, and now, President Maduro.

Twenty-first Century Socialism and the Venezuelan Woman. The Chávez Legacy.

1804 Caribvoices.

Country Gender Assessment - St. Lucia

Caribbean Development Bank

This Country Gender Assessment (CGA) for St. Lucia was commissioned by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as part of an initiative to update the CGAs for Anguilla, Belize and St. Lucia that had been completed in 2012. In implementing the CDB’s 2008 Gender Equality Policy and Operational Strategy (GEPOS), the assessments not only inform CDB’s support to the specific Borrowing Member Countries but also contribute to advancing gender equality in the Caribbean region.

Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution

Caribbean Review of Gender Studies

“Women and Change in Hugo Chávez's Bolivarian Revolution.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS). IGDS Gold: Advancing Caribbean Feminist Scholarship. Issue 10. 2016. 93-114.

Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations

Rowman and Littlefield

“Women’s Political Leadership in Trinidad and Tobago: Understandings, Experiences and Negotiations.” In Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistances and the Possibilities for Transformation in the Caribbean, edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein and Jane Parpart. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 45-66. 2016.

The People and the Revolution: in Defence of 'Twenty- First Century Socialism'

Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy

Less than a year after the death of former President Hugo Chavez, the architect of the Bolivarian Revolution, and also within the first year in office of his successor, Nicolas Maduro, opposition protests, both violent and non-violent, have punctuated the Venezuelan political and social landscape. These largely middle-class protests have sought -among other things- to destabilize the democratically elected government of Maduro, and with that, the Bolivarian Revolution. To understand these events and the continued support of the poor and working classes for the Chavez-Maduro project, one must first examine the political history of Venezuela prior to the election of Hugo Chavez and the founding of the revolution. It is through his election that a legacy of exclusionary politics ended to be replaced with a participatory and protagonistic democracy. The revolution has thus created spaces for poor and working class Venezuelan people -and, in particular, women- to exercise a new sense of citizenship, inclusion and newly politicized social roles. The deliberately non-andocentric and inclusionary constitution of 1999, along with the creation of misiones ('missions' or social programmes), have also largely benefitted the poor. It is this extension of power and citizenship to the formerly excluded which explains the enduring support for the late President Chavez, the Bolivarian Revolution, and now, President Maduro.

¿El Estado Somos Todos? Women and 21st Century Socialism in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press.