Dawsher Charles also known as ‘The Resilient Warrior’ is the Founder and Managing Director of Survival Scholars. She is a Puppeteer, an author, an Educational Development Coach and Consultant, a Trauma and Crisis Management Specialist, a youth leader, change maker and advocate for students to have a balance between their mental health and wellbeing with their academic achievement. Her story is one of success through struggles where she was able to overcome every obstacle she encountered. Today Dawsher uses her experiences along with her education and creative skills to inspire and empower thousands of parents, teachers and students with resilience tools and skills. Dawsher enjoys incorporating the arts, especially puppetry into her engagements with students providing exceptional experience at her highly impactful location Puppet Palace offering Puppet Shows, Puppet Making and the Art of Puppetry to hundreds of schools across Trinidad and Tobago. She is the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Trust 100 Young Leaders award, the Commonwealth youth award for excellence in development work, AFETT Youth Leader Award, National Youth Organizational Award for Arts and Culture along with several other awards for her dedication in education development and the arts. Dawsher continues to partner with several established local and international organizations such as UNESCO, Central Bank of TT, and many others to harness her expertise in education development so that more young people can benefit creating a multiplier effect.