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Africa And The Caribbean

At notes., we deliver top-notch, syllabi-tailored, affordable learning resources to CAPE, CSEC, JAMB, KCSE and WASSCE students across Africa and the Caribbean. We are committed to bridging educational disparities locally and globally by offering exceptional materials aligned with these regions' school curriculum. Our resources cater to diverse learning styles and are presented in the lingua franca of our students.In addition to academic support, we have designed specialized notebooks to cultivate essential soft skills and tech skills. These notebooks aim to guide students towards lucrative careers, addressing vital gaps in the tech landscape across Africa and the Caribbean. Ultimately, notes. strives to nurture a generation of African and Caribbean learners who excel in school and in life.

We have created a platform for emerging African and Caribbean authors, poets and writers to have their work professionally published without the worry of expense, to harness the wealth inherent in their stories, and to answer global calls for more diverse and inclusive literature.In 2017 we launched the publishing house with 5 books under a banner called “The Letters Project”. In a compilation of letters released to the public as books, authors tackled a range of issues — social, relational, economic, political, and religious — in a bold and transparent manner, with a tinge of humor, an embrace of Caribbean and African parlance.I functioned at a high level as a team leader, designer, editor, public relations officer, marketer, and social media manager, even spearheading a successful crowdfunding campaign that raised our target of $3000USD in 30 days. Still, I am most proud of the way I handled communication with our authors amidst the disappointment of our investor bailing on us 3 weeks before what should have been our official launch date. If nothing else, the successful launch of Wakonté Publishing sealed and confirmed my mettle as a young leader with the capacity to be flexible and creative in intense and pressure-filled environments. In the end we sold thousands of copies of our books, and 3 of the books were bestsellers.

Africa & The Caribbean

During my brief tenure as a Communications Designer with OpenDevEd, I was responsible for producing design solutions for proposals and publications targeting Caribbean contexts.

When I joined Farmwallet it was a flailing agritech in desperate need of money and direction. I was brought in to remedy that lack.In my two-fold role as Storyteller and Fundraiser, my first order of business was to revamp the company’s brand identity completely. I then brought in some of my team from Wakonté Agency to assist with pitch deck design and to replace an outdated user interface and poor user experience with a modern, sleek design and a seamless user experience. Finally, I revamped the company’s story in a way that found favor with investors and small-holder farmers alike. The result was that within six months we raised tens of thousands of dollars through grants, investors, and pitch competitions.

I ran communications for this Ghana-based startup. During my stay at the company, I chronicled and shared the stories of how the company impacted the lives of small-holder farmers across Africa through photography, videography, content creation, and social media management.While my duties at Farmerline were largely communications-related, my biggest takeaways were insights into who I am, what drives me, my values, and priceless lessons in entrepreneurship. I left the company with a greater understanding of how to build and impact culture at a startup, a most-cherished knowledge of how social enterprises can be creative in the design of revenue and monetization models, a budding interest in what it takes to successfully manage talent and a growing respect and appreciation for processes and systems.

The Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) empowers entrepreneurs and innovative civil society leaders to strengthen their capacity to launch and advance their entrepreneurial ideas and effectively contribute to social and economic development in their communities.Throughout this fellowship I submitted myself to rigorous trainings and assessments that would assist me in communicating my company story, building my brand, and fine-tuning my processes as a budding social entrepreneur. I also submitted to rigorous travel and networking schedules across the United States and the Caribbean, unquestionably qualifying my “Road Warrior” badge.

I taught Caribbean History and Communication Studies to 16-20-year-olds. I viewed my role as an opportunity to encourage students to believe, soar, and accept their positions as elemental threads in the fabric of the global community. Because it required me to communicate effectively via different mediums to a notoriously short-spanned demographic with various learning styles, I credit this role for broadening my communicative capacity.My colleagues and students will remember me best as the lecturer who effectively used digital strategy to make learning interactive, exciting and modern.

During my time at St. Augustine’s Trade and Economic Development Unit (TEDU) I conducted research on the Natural Trading Hypothesis and its applicability to ascertaining suitable trading partners for Trinidad and Tobago. This required extensive reading on, as well as the collection and analysis of data on the trading patterns of Trinidad and Tobago, and CARICOM at large.My role also included conducting research and writing academic papers on Chindia-CARICOM relations, Caribbean economic typologies, and the significance of gravity models. Perhaps my biggest takeaway was learning to efficiently use databases such as the World Integrated Trade System (WITS) and UNCOMTRADE for the use of compiling reliable data used in calculating International Trade formulae.

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Relations And Affairs

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, International Relations And Affairs