KEY PEOPLE
Board of Directors
Committed to the Cause
MEET JÉNINE
JÉNINE SHEPHERD
CO-CHAIR, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
President of the Jamaican American Youth Alliance, Prime Minister's Youth Award for Excellence Recipient in Nation Building (2018).
Base: Jamaica & USA
MEET NATHANIEL
NATHANIEL PEAT, Honorary Fellow, MIod, MSc, BEng(Hons), FdSc
CO-CHAIR
Business Insider's Top 21 minority & indigenous executives in the USA, UK & Ireland, Featured in Forbes magazine, UK Financial Times & Canadian National Post. Founder of The Safety Box®️, Patron & Former Board Member of the EY (Ernst & Young) Foundation & Co-founder of GeNNex Elite ®️. First ever black double award winner of the Enterprising Young Brits Awards awarded by the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Governor General Award ‘15 (Jamaica),elected GJDC representative to South UK
Base: UK
MEET CARON
CARON CHUNG
VICE-CHAIR
Executive Director of the American Friends of Jamaica, Distinguished Leadership Award Recipient by the Progressive Democrats Political Association
Former: Founder/ Managing Director of Bankra Buys Ltd., Business Marketing Manager at Digicel Group
Base: USA
MEET CHARDO
CHARDO ANDERSON, BMedSc (Hons).
SECRETARY
Education: BMedSc in Pharmacology at the University of the West Indies
Base: Jamaica
MEET MAXINE
THE HONOURABLE MAXINE HENRY-WILSON, C.D., MPP, MsC
DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION
Former Minister of Education of Jamaica, Former CEO and Commissioner of the Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission, Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies
Base: Jamaica
MEET DAVID
DAVID MULLINGS, B.Sc, MBA
FINANCE AND BUSINESS STRATEGY LEAD
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Blue Mahoe Capital Partners Inc, featured on Bloomberg; Chairman of FundBlackFounders; Advisory Board Member, Caribbean School of Data; Chair of the Mentorship Innovation Entrepreneurship Council - Development Bank of Jamaica
Base: USA
MEET PETER
DR. PETER CHARLES, MD.
DIRECTOR OF HEALTHCARE
Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Former: Member of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel and the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee of UNESCO
Base: Jamaica
MEET DOMINIC
DOMINIC CHRISTOPHER
MEMBER- GENERAL BUSINESS BEST PRACTICES COMMITTEE
Chairman of the Jamaican American Youth Alliance, Founder and CEO of Bickle, Founder and CEO of Deh Abroad, Chairman of Midalta Innovation
Base: USA
MEET SHARON
SHARON BURKE
MEMBER- GENERAL BUSINESS BEST PRACTICES COMMITTEE
President of Solid Agency Limited, one of the top artist management firms in the Caribbean with a global reach, booking festivals in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, UK, China, Canada and the USA. Organizer/ Producer of the Reggae Jamboree in New York, The Days Music Festival in Nigeria, the Antigua Music Festival, Shaggy & Friends Charity Series, Buju Banton Long Walk to Freedom, Pandemonium Soca Jouvert and Verzuz.
Base: Jamaica
MEET MEREDITH
DR. MEREDITH SMART, Ph.D.
MEMBER- EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Deputy Director of College Access Programs at New York Edge
Former: Program Coordinator at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Lecturer at Columbia University
Education: PhD. in Science Education/ Program Development and Management at Columbia University in the City of New York, Masters at New York University in Teaching and Learning of Biology
Base: USA
MEET MICHELLE
MICHELLE-ANN TINGLIN, MSN, RN
MEMBER- HEALTHCARE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Founder of Sweetwater Blossom Foundation, Organiser of the CPR Jamaica campaign and the Medical Mission objective, Partner on the Jamaica Emergency Medical Service (JEMS), Advisory board member of the Institute for Gender & Development Studies- Regional Coordinating Office (IGDS-RCO)- the University of the West Indies.
Background: emergency nursing, interventional, cardiac nursing, nursing education, and nursing administration
Education: BSc. in nursing- Rutgers University, MSc. in nursing education & a Family Nurse Practitioner post-master’s certificate- Felician University,
Base: USA
MEET PAMELLA
DR. PAMELLA HAY HOSANG, Ed.D., RN
MEMBER- HEALTHCARE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE
Former Professor of Community Health Nursing at Columbia University, The City University of New York (Medgar Evers College & Lehman College) and Long Island University, Former Chair of Nursing at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Former President of the Jamaica Nurses Group of New York
Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Masters of Education and Doctor of Education at Columbia University
Scholarly Interests: Curriculum Development and History
Base: USA