Dr. Patricia Rodney, CEO of the Walter Rodney Basis in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, acquired the Presidents Award on the closing ceremony of the St. Martin E book Truthful on November 25, 2023.
The award is the ultimate spotlight of the lit fest, which is normally held in June however was postponed to November this yr, stated ebook truthful coordinator Shujah Reiph.
Dr. Rodney was offered with the Presidents Award by Reiph earlier than a St. Martin viewers and visiting ebook truthful company. Dr. Rodney stated that she was shocked to obtain the dignity. She stated that the award might have been offered to any of the famous authors, lecturers, and activists that she had met on the literary pageant’s 21st version.
“The Presidents Award is offered to people and establishments whose work is famous for its excellence and for combining literary, cultural, and liberation parts within the service of progress, of their individuals or nation, and of humanity,” stated Lasana M. Sekou, HNP’s marketing consultant to the ebook truthful.
The pageant’s Major E book Launch and Closing Ceremony was held on the spacious Motorworld showroom in Cole Bay. The roughly 120 company had been welcomed by Imran McSood-Amjad, the corporate’s principal and regionally recognized businessman.
The theme of ebook truthful 2023, “Resistance,” had already been elaborated on by Rodney in her keynote on the opening ceremony of the pageant at Robert Weinum highschool, La Savanne, Grand Case, November 23.
Over the three ebook fest days, visiting or zoomed in visitor writers from Anguilla to Italy, the St. Martin public, and guests to the island at ebook truthful actions had develop into acquainted with Dr. Rodney and key components of her “Take motion” concepts and work.
Dr. Patricia Rodney has lived and labored in Guyana—the place Dr. Walter Rodney, her husband, historian, and revolutionary (reparationscomm.org), was assassinated in 1980 for his political activism.
On the Walter Rodney Basis (WRF), Patricia Rodney and the Walter Rodney household proceed to “champion Walter Rodney’s unwavering dedication to human rights, racial fairness, and social justice.”
The inspiration furthers “Walter Rodney’s legacy by sharing his work and fostering the utilization of his historic evaluation and scholar-activism to impact transformative world change.” (walterrodneyfoundation.org)
Dr. Patricia Rodney has additionally lived and labored particularly in schooling and well being areas in Barbados, England, Tanzania, Canada, and the USA. The profession of the seasoned public well being skilled spans well being, grownup schooling, and literacy, social work and girls, gender, and growth.
Throughout her 15-year tutorial tenure at Morehouse Faculty of Drugs, USA (1995-2010), she was promoted to MPH Program Director, Professor, Dept. of Group Well being & Preventative Drugs, and Assistant Dean for Public Well being Training.
The Caribbean State, Well being Care, and Girls: An Evaluation of Barbados and Grenada by Patricia Rodney was printed in 1998. Her peer-reviewed tutorial articles have appeared in journals. Dr. Rodney is an Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Group Well being & Preventive Drugs, Morehouse Faculty of Drugs.
Since 2011, Dr. Rodney turned the CEO of Companions in Well being, Training, and Improvement (PHEAD), “a global growth consultancy group. She has labored in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Botswana, Lesotho, and South Africa,” stated the WRF.
Amongst previous recipients of the St. Martin E book Truthful Presidents Award, which the Every day Herald has referred to as a “prestigious award,” are David Comissiong (Barbados) Edwidge Danticat (USA/Haiti), Computech (St. Martin), Dorbrene O’Marde (Antigua), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), Benny Wenda (West Papua), Norman Girvan (Jamaica), George Lamming (Barbados), Duncan (Costa Rica), Drisana Deborah Jack (St. Martin), Quince Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados), Will Johnson (Saba), Fabian Adekunle Badejo (St. Martin), Nicole Cage (Martinique), and Derek Walcott (St. Lucia).
The Presidents Award is known as after the presidents of ebook truthful companions Aware Lyrics Basis (CLF), Home of Nehesi Publishers (HNP), and the College of St. Martin (USM), stated Reiph.
CLF and the St. Martin E book Truthful Committee organized the 21st Annual St. Martin E book Truthful in collaboration with the Collectivity of St. Martin, Computech, College of St. Martin, SOS Radio, and NIPA.
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