D. Alissa Trotz

Alissa Trotz is a Guyanese Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and the Director of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados; and a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. Her essays — including on such topics as history, memory, terror and colonialism in Guyana; on reading Walter Rodney alongside Guyanese history; on Caribbean diaspora and transnationalism — have appeared in several Caribbean journals including New West Indian Guide; Social and Economic Studies; Small Axe; Interventions; Caribbean Review of Gender Studies; Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is a resource person with Red Thread Women in Guyana and for the last 15 years has edited “In the Diaspora,” a weekly newspaper column in the Guyanese daily Stabroek News. She is editor of The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings by Andaiye (Pluto Books, 2020).