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About Shodona Kettle
My name is Shodona Kettle, and I am currently an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at the Institute of the Americas, University College London (UCL). My research centers on reparation demands among Afro-descendants and Indigenous groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. I have been a Senior research fellow and consultant at the Reparations Finance Lab and Visiting research fellow at the Centre for Reparation Research and at the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, both based at the Mona campus at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. I have recently published a review of Professor Theresa Delgadillo’s Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas in the John Hopkins University College Literature Journal. My forthcoming book chapter for The Routledge History of the International Protection of Minorities, 1919-2001 with the Taylor and Francis Group talks to perspectives on reparation in the Americas. I was also awarded the Political Studies Association Diverse Voices Award for 2024-2025.
Further, I’ve lectured at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, covering Human Rights, African American Studies, and Composition and Rhetoric. My research interests include: Reparative justice *Comparative politics *Climate & Environmental Justice *Inclusive Development/Equitable Growth *Design Thinking *Afrofuturisms *Indigenous Futurisms. My academic qualifications include a Specialization in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies from The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and an M.Sc. in Globalization and Latin American Development from UCL. I was also former chair of the advocacy organization the Haiti Support Group. I speak French, Spanish, Portuguese and enjoy practicing Haitian Kreyol.
NBN Episodes hosted by Shodona:
March 20, 2026
The Futures of Reparations in Latin America
Over the last thirty years, Latin America has undergone an unprecedented wave of reparations targeting victims of political violence during military r…
December 2, 2025
Geographies of Relation
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas (U Michigan Press, 2024) offers a new lens for examining diaspora and borderlands t…