Brian Benoit
Brian Benoit is the Chief Executive Officer of the Benoit Academy of Steel Pan, Executive Producer of Panimation Studios and Author of the Legends of Panderica animated book series, the first steel pan animated book of it’s kind which won the Ideas to innovation (i2i) competition for innovative excellence and commitment to shaping the future […]
Gregory Thompson
A primary school teacher for twenty five years, Gregory Thompson is the author The Adventures of Manti and Andy, a series of environmentally aware picture books. For more information on the series, visit Manti and Andy’s official website. He is presently working on book projects which include poetry on local endangered species, as well as […]
Melissa Matthews
Melissa Matthews is an artist, writer, and entrepreneur. She writes and illustrates stories based on the adventures of her beloved daughter, Makena. She published the first of these stories in 2016, Makaynuh & The Magical Curtains and is working on finishing and publishing a few more in the near future.
Britta Rajkumar
Britta is a primary school teacher who has a passion for teaching English and encouraging young ones to love reading. From a young age, reading was always a love as was caring for the environment. Britta plans on creating a series of books through Boysie to teach children how to care for their environment better […]
Sheetal Daswani
Sheetal Daswani is a mother, dreamer, author, wanderer, birth doula, educator and human rights defender. Sheetal primarily works as an education consultant on grassroots projects that are aimed at equipping at-risk communities with the tools needed to promote sustainable and meaningful social change.
Agyei Archer
Agyei Archer is a Graphic Designer with a strong focus in new products and design for education
Natalie Edgecombe
Natalie Edgecombe is a communications specialist from Montserrat. She pursued her undergraduate degree at Emerson College in Boston, and York University in Toronto. Following university, she found opportunity in Toronto as a freelance video editor and at Montserrat’s local television station PTV, gaining a wealth of hands-on experience. She went on to produce several documentaries […]
Janine Mendes-Franco
Janine Mendes-Franco writes: “Words have always been my thing. I was three when my brother was born; there was allegedly a welcome speech. I suspect, since I wasn’t great at verbal apologies back then, that once the sibling rivalry took hold, so did the writing: ‘Sorry for blowing out your birthday candles/wrecking your bike/selling you […]
Akilah Jaramogi
Akilah Jaramogi is the founder and managing director of the Fondes Amandes Community Reafforestation Project (FACRP). She is also a proud Merikin descendent, dedicated to preserving the heritage of this group of pioneering African Americans in Trinidad.
Nicholas Galt
Nicholas Galt, Managing Director of the software development companyTrinidad Sytems Ltd, is Chairman of the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACCLA).
Marlene Attzs
Marlene Attzs, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad and Tobago. She is also a founding member of the Sustainable Economic Development Unit (SEDU). She currently serves as a member of the Economic Development Advisory Board.
Jerome Teelucksingh
Jerome Teelucksingh is a lecturer in the Department of History at UWI, St Augustine. He focuses on the history of Afro-Caribbean activists and intellectuals, on Indo-Caribbean Diaspora in North America; on Pan-Africanism; on race, gender, and ethnic relations in the Caribbean; as well as labour history and the impact of Carnival and Calypso on Trinidad […]
Joshua Lue Chee Kong
Joshua Lue Chee Kong is a graphic artist who has a keen interest in history and culture and is currently exploring Trinidad and Tobago’s folklore. He is working to redefine traditional interpretations by expanding the cultural iconography and imagery.
Marla Dukharan
Marla Dukharan is Group Economist for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Caribbean operation. She is responsible for monitoring over 20 countries in the Caribbean, and authors the RBC Caribbean Economic Report on a monthly basis.
Mark Loquan
Mark Loquan, President of the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. is a chemical engineer by profession, with over thirty years’ experience in the petrochemical industry. He is also an award-winning composer of steelpan music and Honorary Founding Director of the non-profit organisation Music Literacy Trust.
Michael Mooleedhar
Film director Michael Mooleedhar brings with him a wealth of experience in creative design entrepreneurship and has directed several shorts and docs within the local film industry. City on the Hill won people’s choice Award at ttff/2015 and Green Days by the River, his debut feature, won best TT feature and people’s choice for best […]
Tamara Lewis
Tamara Lewis is a trained mediator and Public Health Inspector at the Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago. Currently attached to the Eastern Regional Health Authority she has worked across northern Trinidad since 2007. Through her educational and work experiences she has had the privilege to learn and experience the food service industry from a […]
Omardath Maharaj
Omardath Maharaj is an Agricultural Economist, Lead Consultant of iTHiNK Global Consulting Services Limited, a by-line columnist in print and electronic media, Part-Time Assistant Lecturer at the UWI, St Augustine Campus, and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of the West Indies. Mr Maharaj has rendered service over the years to a range of community-based […]
Deneka Thomas
Deneka Thomas (they/them) is a queer, non-binary writer, performance poet, arts educator and media practitioner from Trinidad and Tobago. Deneka is the founder and Creative Director of Bacano Leaf, a creative social enterprise that nurtures the Caribbean’s stories and culture by empowering young people to write and speak about their experiences, concerns, and their hope […]
Perspective the Entertainer
Perspective the Entertainer is a professional illusionist. He has been doing magic since he was nine years old. Perspective performs at birthday parties, functions, executive meetings, corporate events and specializes in close up magic; often doing disappearing acts, appearing acts, and card performances.
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel is the founder and leader of The Oratory Foundation, where she trains children and teenagers to be fluent in oral expression, dramatic monologues, poetry in performance, public speaking, choral speaking, debating and other creative forms of the spoken word. For the past eighteen years her Oratory performances have captivated sold-out audiences at the […]
Lance Dowrich
Lance Dowrich won the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean with “Ethelbert and the Free Cheese”. His two books to date have been published by Notion Press of Chennai, India. These are: A Plethora of Dead Ends (July 2021) and Long Rope for Magga Goat (March 2026). His story from 2016 was part […]
Alianna Grant
Alianna Grant is a certified ECCE Facilitator and is the C.E.O & Creative Director of The Li Collection by CreAtiv-Li
Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
Ricardo Bharath Hernandez is chief of the Santa Rosa First People’s Community, a group formed in 1970 of more than 200 people who are descended from this island’s first inhabitants of Amerindian descent.
Kyle “Skeeto” Amos
Kyle “Skeeto” Amos is the founder of ONE MIC, San Fernando’s premier spoken word and performance open mic event.
Francis Lovell
Francis Lovell is a Minister in the Ministry of Education and MP for Moruga Tableland.
Michael Anthony
Michael Anthony is an eminent Caribbean author and historian from Mayaro. He has had over 30 titles published in the form of novels, short stories and travelogues, including The Year in San Fernando, which was assigned as an English Literature text book in the Trinidad and Tobago curriculum. In 1979 he was awarded the Hummingbird Gold Medal for […]
Aliyyah Eniath
Aliyyah Eniath was born in Trinidad and Tobago; her ancestors hailed from Uttar Pradesh, India. She’s a director at Safari Publications, a magazine publishing house, and founder/editor-in-chief of Belle Weddings (Caribbean) magazine. Her debut novel The Yard is published by Speaking Tiger Books in both paperback and ebook formats.
Sean Samad
Sean Samad is lecturer in Lusophone and Brazilian culture at UWI St. Augustine since 2013. Previous academic stints have seen him as Lecturer for Arts and Creative Enterprise Management Postgraduate diploma, UWI St. Augustine, Guest Lecturer at the Institute of International Relations, UWI St. Augustine and in Intercultural Communication at Linnaeus University in Sweden. His passion […]
Nickolai Salcedo
Nickolai Salcedo is an actor, singer/songwriter, musician and visual artist. Frontman for the band Gyazette that he has spearheaded for 8 years, Nickolai has also been seen in a wide variety of theatre roles, including his critically acclaimed performance of King Oberon/Duke Theseus at the Trinidad Theatre Workshop’s 2013 production of A Midsummernight’s Dream. He played […]