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She is one of six international experts
who will serve on the committee in their individual professional capacity,
following the decision which was taken at last December’s meeting of the InterGovernmental Committee
in Paris, France.
As a consultative member, she will
participate in scrutinising
applications to the UNESCO’s Register of Best Safeguarding Practices, the Urgent
Safeguarding List and requests for international assistance in relation to
Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Dr Rampersad
- an independent media, cultural and literary consultant and facilitator - is a
UNESCO-trained expert towards safeguarding cultural heritage and strengthening
community and national tangible and intangible culture mechanisms. She has been
conducting capacity building exercises in this regard across the Caribbean,
including in countries as Belize, Jamaica, Guyana, St Kitts & Nevis,
Trinidad and Tobago and Grenada. She has also prepared and trained Caribbean
youths, policy makers, decision makers and cultural communities in accessing
the provisions of the Conventions towards strengthening mechanism for cultural
survival and endurance. She further participated in the intergovernmental
meeting on intangible cultural heritage in Bali, Indonesia in December, 2011.
Rampersad
has been examining and critiquing national and international policy
instruments, including UNESCO
mechanisms, and devising mechanisms and recommendations for culture-centred development for more
than a decade. She has also been engaged by various international and regional
agencies to present her perspective and coordinate multisectoral
examination of development issues, bringing together policy and
decision-makers, academics, private sector, media and civil society on a range
of fields including science, technology, communications, agriculture, gender
among others.
A journalist, and newspaper editor, her
research and recommendations are represented in UNESCO publications as well as the Commonwealth Foundation’s
Putting Culture First Report; the culture reports of the ACP-EU (Africa,
Pacific, Caribbean-European Union), and the International Who’s Who in Culture
Policy Research among others.
She is the author of the highly
acclaimed LiTTscapes
– Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago; Through the Political
Glass Ceiling, and Finding a Place along with numerous print and new media
journals and fora on culture, gender, literature, media and development.
Rampersad is
the Chair of the Trinidad and Tobago National Commission for UNESCO.
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