You could say that my story started over 70 years ago before I was born! It began with my mother as a 17 years old girl in her village and was touted to be the first policewoman in Tobago. Unfortunately her father decided against this and suggested that she should become a seamstress or Typist. So angry was my mother, that not long after she met my father and the rest is history. Fast forward 40 years later and I am now that 17 year old who has dreams to go to 6th form ad then university. Instead my male principal offered me a teaching role in my secondary school and my father quickly supported this. I on the other hand had no interest in doing accepting this offer. I was lucky that my mother fought my corner and persuaded my father to allow me to follow my dreams. The common denominator here in my mother and my story is that we both were in a culture at the time where men made the decisions. Even though a lot have changed in my culture and worldwide for man women, sadly we still see evidence of misogyny in may organisations.

My current passion is to have conversations with women in different spaces. I want to create a community for us whereby we can have conversations about topics that directly affect us. That means women who have been othered because of your race, neurodiversity conditions, mental health and so on. These have been my own story and I know how difficult its been to be well and stay engaged in everyday living while having to deal with discrimination, rejection, isolation.