Keynote Speakers
Roberta Clarke
Commissioner Roberta Clarke was elected by the General Assembly of the OAS during its Regular Period of Sessions, on November 12, 2021, for a period of four-year term, from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. An activist for social justice and gender equality, Roberta Clarke has led UN Women Regional Offices in East and Southern Africa, Asia Pacific, the Caribbean and Libya.
Valerie Woods
Valerie Woods holds a Masters in Tourism Administration from George Washington University, Washington D.C. and a BSc in Business Administration from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY. Ms. Woods has pursued professional development certificate studies in parliamentary service through the CPA Academy and Gender Studies through the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development through UWI.
Colette Delaney
Ms. Delaney is a banking professional of over thirty years' experience, having begun her career with CIBC in 1987, and was previously with National Westminster Bank plc. She holds a Master of Arts degree from St. Anne's College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, an MBA from Cass Business School in London, and received the designation of Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in the United Kingdom in 1989.
Jay Gilliam
Jay Gilliam (he/him/his) is the Senior LGBTQI+ Coordinator at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID), serving as the Agency’s lead to elevate issues concerning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and other people of diverse genders and sexualities. In this role, he works to meaningfully integrate LGBTQI+ people into USAID’s inclusive development programs, policies, research and training. Most recently, he was the Engagement and Communications Advisor in the Center for Education at USAID.
Dr. Lee Badgett
M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she is the former director of the School of Public Policy. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute, where she was a co-founder and the first research director. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, including wage gaps, employment discrimination, and poverty, and on the global cost of homophobia and transphobia.
Victor Madrigal
In late 2017 the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Mr. Madrigal-Borloz as UN Independent Expert on Protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity for a three-year period starting on 1 January 2018. In this capacity, he assesses the implementation of international human rights law, raises awareness, engages in dialogue with all relevant stakeholders, and provides advisory services, technical assistance, capacity-building to help address violence and discrimination against persons on the basis of the sexual orientation or gender identity.
Day 1 - September 15
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1. Violence and Accessing Justice
2. Health and COVID Impacts
Needham Ballroom 3
Peninsula Room
3. Defining “LGBTQI+ Livelihoods”
4. Education and Human Capital
Needham Ballroom 3
Peninsula Room
5. Decriminalization and other legal perspectives
6. Accessing development financing and impact investments
Needham Ballroom 3
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7. Poverty and accessing labor markets
8. Tourism perspectives
Needham Ballroom 3
Peninsula Room
Day 2 - September 16
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9.Perspectives from the Private Sector
10. Decolonizing Global Finance and Partnerships
Peninsula Room
Needham Ballroom 3
11. Navigating potential backlash
12. Migration and Brain Drain
Peninsula Room
Needham Ballroom 3