by Howard Campbell
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dr. Karren Dunkley, who overcame adversity after migrating to america to grow to be a advisor on the US Division of Justice, has been awarded the Order of Distinction, Jamaica’s sixth-highest honor.
The popularity “for service to the Jamaican Diaspora in america” was introduced right here on August 6, Jamaica’s Independence Day. Dunkley will obtain her insignia in October throughout the annual Nationwide Honors and Awards ceremony.
Final November, the DOJ appointed Dunkley to supervise the implementation of a four-point program to finish racial discrimination and harassment within the Davis County faculty district in Utah.
She is just one of two black consultants at that company.
Dunkley accomplished her secondary schooling in Jamaica and migrated to the US in 1992. At St. John’s College in Queens, New York, she earned a bachelor’s diploma in authorities and politics, minoring in schooling, after which a grasp’s in worldwide regulation.
At Columbia College, Dunkley obtained a second grasp’s in schooling and her doctorate in group and management.
In an interview with The Gleaner newspaper in Jamaica final 12 months, Dunkley recalled enduring tough instances, particularly after transferring to the US. At one stage, she was residing in her automobile and showering on the Lengthy Island Marriott Resort, the place she labored as a waitress.
Roughly 150 individuals will obtain nationwide awards this 12 months. Amongst them are Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s minister of tourism, who receives the Order of Jamaica, the nation’s fifth-highest honor.
Entertainers Nadine Sutherland, Moses “Beenie Man” Davis, Rodney “Bounty Killer” Value, actress Audrey Reid and opera singer Curtis Watson, have additionally been awarded the OD.
