Marie-elena john biography
Marie-Elena John
Caribbean writer
Marie-Elena John is an Antiguan writer whose novel, Unburnable, was published in 2006. She is an Africanist, development and women's rights specialist, currently serving as the Senior Racial Justice Lead at UN Women.
Biography
John was born and raised in Antigua. After writing, she continued her career in international development and human rights. She has worked for the last decade at UN Women, the agency of the United Nations mandated with advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women. She currently serves as the Senior Racial Justice Lead.
Earlier in her career, she was a development specialist, working at the African Development Foundation, the World Council of Churches' Program to Combat Racism, and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group), where she worked in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and in the Democratic Republic of Congo.[1] She is known especially for her wor Marie-elena john biography death.