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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:
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…