Kris Rampersad

Dr Kris Rampersad is a media, cultural and literary consultant, author, researcher, lecturer and journalist.
She has been trained and has conducted training for various international organisations on media strategy, heritage preservation, cultural policy and the UNESCO culture conventions and preparing its nomination documents.
She has more than three decades in interrogating multiculturalism in post colonial societies, with specific focus on Caribbean diversity in global contexts.
Her latest book, LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago explores the link between social realism and fiction in literature through pictorals of representations of Trinidad and Tobago juxtaposed with their representations by home-grown writers as Derek Walcott, Samuel Selvon, Ismith Khan, Earl Lovelace, Michael Anthony, Lawrence Scott, Robert Antoni, Ramabai Espinet, Lakshmi Seetaram-Persaud, Shani Mootoo, VS Naipaul, is brother Shiva, father Seepersad and nephew, Neil Bissoondath and many others.
It is an extension of the theory and presentation of literary evolution, migration and settlement defined in her first book, Finding a Place, which takes a bird’s eye view of the literary evolution of Trinidad, as it emerged from a position of newness to formation and evolution of new cultures through the introductions and interactions of peoples of diverse cultures.
LiTTscapes also launched LiTTours - literary journeys through the landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago and LiTTevents - both customade leisure offerings tailored to specific needs and interests.
She is author of the blog Demokrissy and a winner ofthe BBC/UNESCO Communications Initiative Blogging for New Media.
She is owner of Caribbean Literary Salon.
Over the past five years her focus has been on promoting multi-sectoral approaches to development, and linking academia and the technical/scientific community with politicians, policy makers, media and NGOs. Her creative and interactive seminar outreach strategies, using modes culturally sensitive to communities in which they are executed to bridge relations between scientific/academic and technical audiences with other stakeholders – politicians, media and civil society - have been successfully adopted by several international organisations.
She has also written and published Through the Political Glass Ceiling, which attempts to define trends in gender, culture and politics in Trinidad and Tobago through the speeches of its first woman Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
See: https://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com;
https://sites.google.com/site/krisrampersadglobal/home/about-me/books
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