Sixty-seventh meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

She is Professor Emerita of Gender, Social Change and Development at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and a former Deputy Campus Principal. She completed her master’s degree at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam. Active in the Women’s Movement at both the national and Caribbean levels and in other social movements, she has received numerous national, regional and international awards. She is currently an elected expert of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the periods 2019–2022 and 2023–2026.