Experience

KITLV, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde

• Netherlands
• Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Affiliated Fellow

  • May 2020 - Present



(CHSolutions)

• Principal Director

  • Aug 2009 - Present

  With a passion for public engagement with its past, I am committed to projects with a strong focus on the preservation of the historic built environment and our heritage resources, particularly those committed to the sustainable use of heritage. I have conducted cultural heritage surveys, desk based assessments for development projects, developed funding proposals, and worked on heritage redevelopment projects:Consultancies|Projects:1. Consultant to develop and implement programme on disaster resilience in the Caribbean's culture sector (UNESCO Cluster Office for the Caribbean);2. Moderator - Heritage Legislation and Fiscal Incentives Group, Caribbean Heritage Network (CHN)3. Hurricane Maria Post Disaster Needs Assessment of Dominica Culture Sector (UNESCO);4. Developed ‘Culture and Heritage Tourism’ Course (UWI Open Campus);5. Desk-based assessment of possible impacts on the marine cultural heritage of Port Royal (Jamaica);6. Heritage appraisal of historic structure in Historic Bridgetown as part of property’s valuation (Barbados);7. Guest Presenter on World Heritage in the Caribbean and Brazil (Seabourn Cruises);8. Development of interpretive storyboards for a national heritage site; proposal development (Anguilla);9. Heritage impact study for proposed development within Historic Bridgetown (Barbados);10. Consultant in the development of the cultural component for the nomination document for the inscription of Blue and John Crow Mountains as world heritage (Jamaica);11. Developed project and donor database for the protection of the intangible heritage of the Sissala people in coordination with the Sissala Heritage Foundation (Ghana);