TEDxIrie -Professor Carolyn Cooper - A Speck of Greatness: Repositioning Brand Jamaica.
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Professor Carolyn Cooper is a Jamaican author and literary scholar who has written extensively on cultural politics in Caribbean literature and popular culture - particularly reggae and dancehall music. She is the author of two books - Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of Jamaican Popular Culture, 1993; and Sound Clash: ... Read more
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- -: TEDxIrie -Professor Carolyn Cooper - A Speck of Greatness: Repositioning Brand Jamaica.
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Professor Carolyn Cooper is a Jamaican author and literary scholar who has written extensively on cultural politics in Caribbean literature and popular culture - particularly reggae and dancehall music. She is the author of two books - Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' Body of...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Kaiton Williams - The Impact of Technology on Jamaican Culture
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Kaiton Williams is a Ph.D. student in Cornell's Information Science program and a senior engineer at Microsoft. He's also an occasional photographer, sporadic tweeter, forever failed blogger, and frequent flyer. He has been an instructor, a web designer, and a software developer for Goldman Sachs...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Mark A. Jones and Jacqueline Sutherland - Vision for ICT opportunities in Jamaica.
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jacqueline Sutherland is the Founder & CEO of Global Gateway Solutions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Math/Computer Science from Howard University, Wash, DC; Master of Science Telecommunications and Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Sutherland ...
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- -: TEDxIrie - Ebony G. Patterson - Fashion Ova' Style: Beauty, Gender & Masculinity
April 13, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Topic: Fashion Ova' Style: Conversations of Beauty, Gender & the Masculinity A graduate of the Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts, Ebony is an Assistant Professor in Painting at the University of Kentucky. "Beauty, gender, body and the grotesque are on going discussion in my work....
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- -: TEDxIrie - Wayne Marshall - Jamaican musical innovations, foundation for modern cultural practice
May 2, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Topic: How Jamaican musical innovations have created a foundation for modern cultural practice Wayne Marshall is an ethnomusicologist focusing on the popular music of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. Curr...
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- -: TEDxJamaica - Barrington Irving : "From the Island to the Sky"
November 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)In June 27, 2007, 23-year-old Captain Barrington Irving secured his place in history as the youngest person ever and first black pilot to fly solo around the globe. In this TEDxJamaica talk he describes the incredible odds he overcame to make this journey into the record books and his vision fo...
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- -: TEDxJamaica-Randall Pinkett:"The Entrepreneur's Mindset"
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Dr. Randal Pinkett is a serial entrepreneur who started his first company while an undergraduate at the University of Rutgers. He is now Chairman and CEO of BCT Partners a company he also founded. Randal was named the winner of NBC's hit reality television show, "The Apprentice", with Donald Trum...
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- -: TEDxJamaica - Divya Narendra "Big Ideas on a small budget"
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Divya Narendra is the CEO & founder of SumZero, which is the largest online community of buyside analysts in the world. He graduated from Harvard College where along with his room mates, he originated the social networking idea that led to the founding of Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg. The charact...
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- -: TEDxJamaica - Simon Benjamin : Investing in Imagination
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Simon Benjamin found his artistic footing at 14 when he began designing t-shirts in Kingston. He has become an awarded, New York-based Director and Designer whose portfolio includes both the world's biggest brands and projects he's done out of personal passion. In this TEDxJamaica talk, Simon de...
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- -: TEDxJamaica - Andrew Simpson "Being unreasonable"
November 3, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Andrew Simpson is the Chief Operating Officer of CaseWare RCM Inc., a subsidiary of CaseWare International Inc., a global software company that provides technology solutions for finance, governance and audit professionals. In this TEDxJamaica talk Andrew describes the birth of an internationall...
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