Hilary Nicholson
Hilary Nicholson is a gender trainer and advocate. She has spent more than 30 years educating and empowering others to see the world through a gender lens, and to work towards "a kinder, peaceful, more caring society, which both men and women can enjoy". She has been involved in the Sistren Theatre Collective from its inception and was a founding member of WMW Jamaica (formerly Women's Media Watch). Both groups focus on advancing women's rights, Sistren through the arts, and WMW Jamaica through advocacy, training and research. She has not only witnessed the advancement of the women's movement in Jamaica, but has been an active participant and a leader in the field. She came into activism and women's empowerment through her involvement in the Sistren Theatre Collective in the early '70s as a theatre student at the Edna Manley School of Drama. Since that time, she has become an expert in gender analysis. She has trained thousands of persons in gender advocacy. Even though she doesn't consider herself to be "an academic", she has inspired many to pursue work in academia. At the grassroots levels she has inspired others to advance the women's movement in Jamaica, and to teach others how to see life through a gender lens.
