Juneteenth and Jamaica with Professor Verene Shepherd (Virtual) Partnership with Louise Bennett-Coverley Heritage Council – Annual Memorial Lecture
Verene A. Shepherd, graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Cambridge, is Professor Emerita of Social History at The UWI. She is Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the UWI, a published author of several books, a radio host and scholar activist, especially in the areas of women’s rights, human rights and reparatory justice. She is the immediate past Director of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies at the UWI.