Sarah-Anne Gresham
Sarah-Anne Gresham is a doctoral candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University and is the co-founder of Intersect Antigua. She also serves as a Board Director at the Equality Fund.
Prior to her arrival in the United States, she was the research officer in residence at the Directorate of Gender Affairs in her native Antigua. In this capacity she produced internal reports on gender-based and sexual violence, organized and provided managerial oversight to Antigua’s first national gender-based violence forum, provided gender-sensitive training for emergency shelter managers in collaboration with UNFPA, and edited Antigua and Barbuda’s 2015 CEDAW report.
Sarah was the 2020 Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University where she completed a master’s degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under a Fulbright scholarship. During her studies at GWU, she was the recipient of the Ruth Helm Osborn Research Fellowship, the Service to the Community of Women Award, the Emily B. Proctor Research Award, the Graduate Prize for Feminist Scholarship, among other accolades.
After graduating from George Washington University, Sarah, and her team here at Intersect Antigua, received a multi-year grant from the Women’s Voice and Leadership – Caribbean program in support of their work. They launched this website in 2020 where they curated over one-hundred and fifty Caribbean feminist stories, essays, art, and audio recordings on a range of topics germane to gender justice and queer liberation.
Her cyberfeminist activism includes generating and disseminating educational feminist content as well as facilitating teach-ins and workshops with students and the wider public.
Sarah is elated that Intersect now has the capacity and support to curate istwa, Haitian kreyòl for history, story, and memory, that attends to gender, colour, race, class, and other vectors of power which intersect to produce varied experiences of oppression in the Caribbean region. She believes that we need to listen to and amplify these stories in order to transform Caribbean societies into places that radically love and cherish Black women and Queeribbean people.
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys ballet, anime, and taking pictures of her books. Follow her bookstagram account at the handle, @booklempt.gyal, to read more about her love of feminist storytelling.
