Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein has a B.A. (Hons.) in Political Science from the University of Toronto, an M.Phil. in Gender and Development Studies from the University of the West Indies, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from University College London (UCL). Her research on young Indo-Trinidadian womanhood is published in Gender in the Twenty-first Century and in Bindi: The Multifaceted Lives of Indo-Caribbean Women. Her writings on political authority and public life have been published in the Journal of Eastern Caribbean Studies, Citizenship Studies and in the edited collection, Anthropology and the Individual: A Material Culture Perspective. She has been actively involved in women’s organising for more than fifteen years. Her feminist movement-building game, “Steppin Up”, has been played in Bangkok, Uganda and across the Caribbean region, and she has publications on activism in academia in Feminist Review and in Gender Issues and Caribbean Scholarship: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. She is currently a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI, St. Augustine Campus, and is the Principal Investigator for the project, Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean, which is producing research on feminists and women’s engagements with national gender policies (Dominica and Jamaica), political leadership (Trinidad and Tobago), transformational leadership (St. Lucia) and electoral quota systems (Guyana). Gabrielle writes a weekly column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, for the Trinidad Guardian newspaper
