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Warren Thompson

Warren Thompson

Warren Thompson is a PhD candidate at the IGDS, Mona Campus, Jamaica, where he was awarded a 2009-2011 Graduate Research Scholarship. His research focuses on the experiences of female voluntary community leaders and of leadership in inner city communities in Kingston Jamaica. Mr. Thompson has a background in social work, having worked in the field of development as programme manager, coordinator, and director in local and international non-governmental organisations in Jamaica. In 2011, he was awarded a scholarship to do a part of his research at the Harriett Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migration of African People's at York University, Toronto, Canada, under the Emerging Leaders of the Americas Programme (2011 Canada DFAIT ELAP). He has also studied music and is currently a teacher at the Port Antonio High School in Jamaica, where he was recently appointed Head of the Eurhythmics Department.