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Dr Kris Rampersad

Dr Kris Rampersad is an award winning independent global thought leader, development educator, journalist, facilitator, consultant, and multimedia producer/publisher. Dr Kris Rampersad is an independent international scholar, award-winning journalist, global thought leader and consultant who straddles spheres of media, culture and education as an expert on integrated sustainable developmental issues of the CARIBBEAN, SIDS, Developing World and the Global South. A Commonwealth Professional Fellow an Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Foreign Press Centre with a PhD in Pre and Post Colonial Literature, she invented the world’s newest creative genre, the MultiMedia MicroEpic that adopts and adapts the long-form classical epic for short-form new media which she piloted to the Commonwealth Scholars Forum at the height of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Her web platform, the GloCaL Knowledge Pot features her developing multimedia expositions of CEIBA-EDUtainment, novel creations that blend education and entertainment for all ages and sectors from pre-school to policy-making through traditional, conventional and new media forms. Dr Rampersad is a National Geographic Educator, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Facilitator, Global Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador, Google Digital Skills Ambassador and Small Island Innovators’ Ambassador. Internationally, she has served variously as President of the UNESCO Education Commission, Vice President of UNESCO Programme and External Relations Commission, Vice President and Independent Member of the Consultative Body to the InterGovernmental Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Vice President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association. More at https://krisrampersad.com/explore-our-world/who-we-are/dr-kris-rampersad-connecting-glocal-cultures/ To support, sponsor or collaborate on developing online resources in the GloCal Knowledge Pot as CEIBA-EDUtainment and MultiMedia MicroEpic interactive initiatives, new investigative research, multimedia publications and productions and digitisation of journalistic, academic and socio-cultural archives and development of online resource base You can make contact and connect through her web portal GloCaL Knowledge Pot, www.krisrampersad.com; as KrisRampersad on LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest, KrisRampersad1 on Facebook and @Krisramp on X/Twitter. (Web Portal GloCal Knowledge Pot https://krisrampersad.com/; https://www.facebook.com/kris.rampersad1 She has numerous skills and conducts development training in management, leadership, diversity management, ICTs and new media, journalism, communications, fundraising, networking, gender equity, advocacy among others. She has worked across the spheres of multilateral agencies of the United Nations, Commonwealth, Organisation of American States, European Union and CARICOM. Following a successful career in journalism, since 2003 she has been engaged by international intergovernmental agencies in developing & implementing multimedia communications outreach & advocacy strategies and strengthening community participation in heritage, development of media, literary, heritage, tourism & creative industries, towards sustainable development across disciplines and sectors. Her work in communications for development create a bridge for academia to enter the popular multimedia arenas. At the intersection of science, the humanities and creative economies, particularly of Small Island Developing States she connect global to ground issues of the Americas and Caribbean towards social inclusion and multistakeholder engagements for poverty eradication through youth and gender empowerment and equity, education, literacy, communications, heritage and culture, agriculture, food security, health and democratic engagement, giving effect to the knowledge/ICT and creative economies. Website: www.krisrampersad.com. Twitter @krisramp; @lolleaves; @glocalknowledgepot Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kris.rampersad1 Blog: Demokrissy: www.kris-rampersad.blogspot.com is now on the Glocal Knowledge Pot www.krisrampersad.com

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