Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo (PhD) is an independent scholar, retired from The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. A specialist in French Foreign Language Teaching and a Researcher in the Literature and Culture of the French-speaking Caribbean, she chaired the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures (2005-2011). In 2004 she received the French order of the Palmes académiques (Chevalier). She is a past President of the Haitian Studies Association (2005-2006), and the recipient of two Principal's Awards for Research in 2016 for her co-authored article with Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson "Translating the Other's Voice: When is too Much, too Much." and 2014...

Biography of Marc PROU, Director of Innoved-uniQ Dr. Marc Prou is the Director of InnovEd-UniQ, and affiliated faculty member with the Faculté des Sciences de l'Education (FSED) at Université Quisqueya since 2016. Prior to that between 1997 and 2016, Professor Prou held a tenured appointment as Associate Professor in the department of Graduate Applied Linguistics and the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was the Director of the Haitian Language and Culture Institute, and also a co-founder the Haitian Studies Association (HSA). From 2004-2005, Dr. Prou was a recipient of a book fellowship awarded...

Katherine Steelman (Ph.D. candidate, UC San Diego, Ethnic studies) is an English language instructor, cultural historian and writer. Broadly, her work examines how sexually non-normative spaces are socially and materially constructed in Tijuana, BC, MX. She takes up US cultural production, as well as the Tijuanense response to the US's narrative of the city and it's communities that might be called queer. This work juxtaposes critical analyses of cultural texts with ethnographic interviews. Her project engages cultural representations of Haiti in the US and Mexico, as well as collaborative ethnographic work with Haitian migrants in Tijuana.

Nyya is an international affairs and sociology of religion scholar with a track record of excellently executing strategic initiatives through social research, community engagement, leadership development, travel immersion, and event planning.

Karen Ann Widess served as Head of Program Development and Compliance for the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) from 2006 through 2010, where she coordinated the activities of the internal committee for the selection of projects and oversaw the staff of the Program Development and Compliance Unit in developing program and projects involving numerous counties and rule of law development issues and diverse donor agencies and organizations. She has over 25 years of experience in the rule of law technical assistance field, working for both donors and implementing organizations. In that regard, she has designed as well as fundraised for...