TEDxPortofSpain Announces Our Final Batch of Speakers
TEDxPortofSpain is just 12 days away! We are thrilled to announce our final set of speakers for our event on 12.12.12. at the Central Bank Auditorium! Have you requested your invitation yet? To request a ticket, please fill out our form; thank you to all of our applicants. We heard that some of you had trouble requesting the tickets, so please note that the deadline to request a ticket has been extended and the attendees will continue to be announced.
We have an amazing lineup of speakers:
- Verna St. Rose Greaves
- Gillian Lucky
- Nzinga Job
- Afra Raymond
- Gervase Warner
- Sunity Maharaj
- Patrice Grell-Yursik
- Christopher Laird
- Peter Douglas Weller
Verna St. Rose Greaves is an experienced professional Social Worker, a long standing feminist, social activist, trade unionist, and Human Rights Advocate. A competent trainer, counsellor, facilitator and development worker she has worked, with government, local and international NGOs and agencies and as an independent consultant. She has done considerable work in the areas of child protection, human rights, social policy development, poverty alleviation, adoption and family services, gender and development, crime and violence in the society, HIV- AIDS, and prison reform.
She has a deep and passionate concern about development issues and regional integration, and has participated in a number of programs in pursuance of social and economic policy development in Trinidad and Tobago and the region. Over the years she has participated in a host of training workshops and conferences, and has presented papers locally, regionally and internationally.A firm defender of press freedom, over the years she has participated in a number of media related initiatives and interviews and has written columns and produced and presented radio and television talk shows.
Gillian Lucky is an Attorney at Law who has in the past occupied the positions of Senior State Counsel at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; Government Senator; Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs, Opposition Member of Parliament and a Temporary High Court Judge. Gillian is currently the Director of the Police Complaints Authority; a columnist with the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian newspaper; host of the television programme Just Gill and Principal of the Academy of Tertiary Studies.
Gillian was also the chairman of the Omnibus Legislation Committee; Chairman of the Committee for the Regularization of the Home Video Industry and a Member of the Crime and Justice Commission. Gillian graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1989 with Upper Second Class Honours and was awarded the Therese Sylvester Prize for the Most Outstanding University Student- Cave Hill Campus. From 1990 until 2001, Gillian was a lecturer in Business Law at UWI and assisted in the distance learning Programme for that course at UWI. Gillian is a no-nonsense person dedicated to the welfare of the country. Throughout her professional life Gillian has always extolled the tenets of Integrity, Truth and Justice.
Nzingha was born Nzinga Sibongile Job to Trinidadian parents in Nairobi, Kenya. She currently works as a full-time music and theatre arts teacher in Tobago. Nzingha has been acting, singing and dancing since the age of five and wrote her first screenplay at ten. Although she attributes “taking singing seriously” to the release of the Bryan Adams song “For You”, she, like most artists, lives on the edge of society – watching, observing, interpreting and translating life’s complexities into various forms of expression. Nzinga, is a poet, songwriter, educator, social observer, and actor. She is an artist.
Nzingha graduated cum laude from Colgate University in 2007 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music. She has sung in chorus, performed at Colgate International Community World Expo, and various open mic events. She has sung songs in English, Spanish, and Chinese. Nzingha has danced with the African Students Union and Total Praise at the annual Colgate Dancefest. She has choreographed dances to soca songs for the 2006 and 2007 Dancefest event in which she also performed to showcase Trinidad and Tobago’s culture, where Jamaican culture had considerable representation. She was a member of the first local production of Carnival Messiah, a creation of the late Geraldine Connor. She was cast as Maxine in the MTV/UNICEF 3-part miniseries “Tribes”, directed by Ras Kassa of Welcome To Jamrock fame, and opposite Nikita Legall, as part of the Staying Alive HIV/AIDS campaign.
Who are you most excited to meet on 12.12.12? Join us as we explore the theme of courage, we will continue to announce tickets and look forward to seeing you there!.
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