In this episode of Rooted, we are in conversation with Dr. Renée Rattray, a Jamaican educator, thought leader, and education activist who has spent more than two decades working to transform how Caribbean children are taught, how Caribbean systems are led, and how the region imagines its own future.

Dr. Rattray is the founder of One Love Pedagogy, a Caribbean-rooted educational framework that places love, identity, culture, and community at the centre of how learning is designed and delivered. She is also the President and Founder of Island Futures Fund, a Caribbean-led nonprofit working at the intersection of education, cultural identity, and climate readiness.

She speaks with honesty and depth about choosing teaching over law, moving through classrooms and whole systems until she understood that the work she needed to do could not be contained within structures that already existed. Love, she argues, is not a soft word, it is a rigorous and demanding framework for how education must be reimagined. And at the heart of everything she has built sits one unshakeable belief: that Caribbean children carry brilliance, and that it is our systems not our children that must rise to meet it.

This podcast is hosted by Chantal Miller

Produced by BreAnna Holmes & Chantal Miller

Edited by BreAnna Holmes

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