Humanities
| Words of Division: The Role of Patwah in Classism and Cultural Identity in Jamaica | ||
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Claudia Oliver is a student at Miami Dade College and is 22 years old. She is Hispanic and studies art education as her major. |
Khaylia Sajous is a sophomore at Miami Dade College North Campus working towards an AA degree with a major in mass communication and journalism. As she works towards her career, she has been on a journey to learn and grow through jobs and research. She has worked at customer service and food industry jobs and has done research through the Mellon-funded Humanities Edge initiative. Ms. Sajous is supported by her family with love and care towards her future and her career. She found her passion as a writer and as a photographer. She started writing in middle school when she began to think like a creative person, and it helped her overcome her shyness as writing became an escape. She found herself expressing herself through healing; the rest became history as she developed her calling as a writer and photographer. |
Winsome Williams hails from Portmore, Jamaica, but she immigrated to the US in 2018. She received her associate in arts in Drama/Drama Education and has a pending BA in film. She joined Miami Dade college as a PT English tutor in 2019. She has decades of experience in acting both locally and in Jamaica and has done extensive research on the use of drama in the Jamaican classroom as an aid to teaching English as well as conducting an exploration of language to further understand the limitations people face when being taught in a language they do not speak in their personal or social settings. Her research led her to investigate the greater issues surrounding Patwah and its lack of official language status. |
