Charlene Joseph-Holmes
With 17 years of dedicated experience teaching at the secondary level, Mrs. Charlene Joseph- Holmes believes that successful students become successful adults. She currently teaches English Language, English Literature, Literatures in English, and Communication Studies to students from Forms 1 through 6. Teaching is more than a profession for Mrs. Joseph-Holmes; it is a passion. […]
Vianney-Marie Williams
Vianney-Marie Williams is an aspiring environmental consultant who seeks to aid companies in developing and implementing waste management systems needed for sustainable development. She is currently an Associate Professional in the Environmental Policy and Planning Division of the Ministry of Planning and Development, and Public Relations Officer of the Caribbean Youth Environment Network.
Kishan Kumarsingh
Kishan Kumarsingh has been Trinidad and Tobago’s lead technical negotiator on climate change for the past 25 years at the UNFCCC negotiations. He has held many international positions in the UN climate negotiations. Nationally, he has been instrumental in defining environmental and climate policy for Trinidad and Tobago including the National Climate Change Policy; Trinidad […]
Xhaiden Darius
Six-year-old Xhaiden Darius is an emerging talent in calypso music. He won the 2023 South Junior Calypso Monarch in the primary school category.
Katelin Sultan
Katelin Sultan is a music star on the rise. She won the 2023 Queen of Chutney Soca title and was a finalist in the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch. She previously won the Princess of Chutney Music and has been performing and recording music since she was 6 years old.
Khamara-Lani Tarradath
Khamara-Lani Tarradath heads the Occupational Therapy Department, St. Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital. Chair of the T&T Occupational Therapy Association and the Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Board, she is also a member of the Council for Professions Related to Medicine and clinical educator for the Master of Science in Occupational Therapy at the University of the […]
Isaac Price
Isaac Price is 7 and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted for the 2022 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Youth Writer Award. Aged 5, his debut book My Fun Pet, Hamlet the Hamster was published (2022). Based on his real-life experiences with his hamster, it explores themes of perseverance, forgiveness, responsibility, friendship, and more.
Laura Escayg
Laura Escayg is an author, social entrepreneur and singer-songwriter. She is the co-founder of Cause An Effect with her husband Francis. Cause An Effect’s mission is to create a conversation about the impact that deficiencies in our system have on people living with disabilities, and to address and them by building a social enterprise that […]
Let’s Read TT
Suzette Cadiz has been an educator for 39 years. She opened and operated a Montessori school in the 1970s after graduating from the Association Montessori Internationale London, and then went on to teach for over two decades at a primary school. In 2010, she co-founded Let’s Read, and continues to advocate for increased literacy throughout […]
Phillip Simon
Phillip Simon was fascinated by many things as a child, but one of his main interests was Japan. This fascination remained with him until his adult years, causing him to move to Japan for two years as an Assistant Language Teacher teaching English in high schools. His experiences while there and his appreciation for Japan […]
Vishawn Gosyne
Vishawn Gosyne won the People’s Choice award for his story “My COVID-19 Experience in Trinidad and Tobago” in the 2021 NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest’s Dragonzilla Short Story Writing Competition. He is a student of Malabar RC Primary School and is a keen reader and creative writer.
Tsarrio Millard
Tsarrio Millard co-authored The Boy Who Never Finished with his wife and son Ki, to help parents whose children are easily distracted or have ADHD/ADD. Drawing on his expertise in data storytelling and analytics, he collaborated with psychologists and education professionals to create a practical storybook that can be used to help children stay focused […]
Sonja Dumas
Sonja Dumas is an arts consultant, performer, choreographer, teacher, filmmaker and writer. She is a founder and co-director of COCO Dance Festival, as well as the founder and artistic director of her dance company, Continuum Dance Project. She is also the author of the children’s story album Once Upon a Caribbean Time, a collection of […]
Natasha Carlow
Natasha Carlow is the author of the award-winning Happy Tears and Rainbow Babies, Mike Nero, and The Superhero School. She contributed to the bestselling book So God Made a Mother and writes for various publications including Her View From Home and Pregnancy After Loss Support.
Lisa Henry
Lisa Henry was first published by Caribbean Baby in 2021 and now has three published books in the Today I Am series, which seeks to expose children to reading from infancy and to provide engaging and fun books to parents to share with them.
Ki Millard
Ki Millard co-authored with his father The Boy Who Never Finished, a children’s book, loosely based on his life, about a curious and creative boy named Jim who struggles to finish what he starts. He is a young entrepreneur, co-founder of Caribbean Amp Studio Ltd, plays music, does online acting school, 3D animation design, and […]
Kevan Calliste
Kevan Calliste is the only person to win the Junior Extempo Monarch three times consecutively, in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He also made it to the Junior Calypso Monarch finals on numerous occasions. He has a special love also for the steelpan and is currently one of the arrangers for Panosonic Steel Orchestra.
Daena De Souza Viscuña
Daena De Souza Viscuña is an educator, poet, aspiring painter and author of the self-published children’s book Greatness In My Pocket. She is currently at work on a novel.
Ashmita Simran Ramoutar
Ashmita Simran Ramoutar, aged 13 and a Form 2 student of St. Joseph’s Convent, Port-of-Spain, is a keen reader and passionate ballet dancer, attending the Bentley Potter School of Dance.
Alisa Gomez
Alisa Gomez is the author of two self-published children’s stories that feature the wildlife of Trinidad’s forests and she is at work on others, which aim to bring the tropical ecosystem to life for young people.
Vic Susanna Surajdeen
“Vic” Susanna Surajdeen is the author of Heidi the Boxer Dog. The collection of stories is based on her life with her pet dog and constant companion who died and left Vic feeling compelled to share their uplifting love story.
Sadé Walker
Sadé Walker is a Trinidadian Investigating Officer at the Ministry of Education and the author of the collection H.E.R.O. Bullying & Disability Stories and founder of the H.E.R.O Restore Project which creates a platform for differently-abled young people and educates them about bullying. Herself hard of hearing, her current PhD research at the University of […]
Nikeisha Jones
Nikeisha Jones teaches Spanish and Remedial Reading at secondary school level and is President of the Trinidad and Tobago Reading Association. She is the author of The Birds of Trinidad and Tobago which highlights a few of the popular birds that our children might be able to identify from among the 500 species.
Daniel Ryan
Daniel Ryan is a standard one student at Diego Martin Government Primary School. He is age 7 and enjoys storytelling, gaming and conducting science experiments in his leisure time. His story “Bats Have Feelings Too” placed 10th in the 5–8 category of the 2020 NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest Dragonzilla Short Story Writing Challenge.
Ayodhya Ouditt
Ayodhya Ouditt is a designer, illustrator, writer, and art educator based in T&T. He earned his BFA in industrial design at the Rhode Island School of Design and has worked in advertising, published children’s books, worked with icons in the fashion and music industry, and designed Carnival bands and kings. He is an art teacher […]
Deborah Lee Matthews
Deborah Lee Matthews has been a cultural worker in the field of theatre in T&T for almost twenty years. A current postgraduate student in Cultural Studies at UWI, St. Augustine, she uses creative expression as a tool to cultivate conversations about lived experiences, community building, active resistance and kinaesthetic memory. She is shortlisted for the […]
Jacqueline Huggins
Dr. Jacqueline Huggins is the Manager of the Student Life and Development Department at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, with responsibility for providing support to all students, including students with disabilities and medical conditions. She has worked as a Tutor in the area of social disability studies and is currently involved in […]
Tessa Pascall
Tessa Pascall is a Disability Affairs Specialist attached to the Disability Affairs Unit of the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services.
AM . ALI
Born and raised in the twin-island republic of Trinidad & Tobago, Aminah Ali, writing as AM . ALI, always had a love for writing from a tender age. She has made an online presence for herself particularly with her poetry via her Instagram handle @aminahwrites. In 2022 she published her debut collection of poems, Lilac […]
Elena Molchanova
Elena Molchanova is a multimedia storyteller and maker. She first came to Trinidad in 2009 and spent five years working in advertising as a motion graphics art director. She has tried on many lives and careers since. Through her writing, she explores those various identities and tries to find the answers she is searching for […]