Amílcar Peter Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan  is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator, and activist from Trinidad and Tobago, currently working between East Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Helsinki, Finland. He is pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His scholarly pursuits and leadership endeavours are focused on the youth-child-gender equality nexus in development, decolonial urbanism, and the role of literary publics in social change. He advocates for co-imagining and co-creation of development throughout the Caribbean and the Americas. Sanatan has authored two poetry chapbooks, co-edited two special journal issues on Caribbean gender and cultural studies, and been the recipient of numerous academic and artistic fellowships.