Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

This spring a virtual group, Haitian Creole in Higher Education Conversation Club, is beginning which is a 10-week pilot initiative where once a week, Haitian Creole speakers in higher education will meet for one hour. The first meeting will take place on Friday Jan. 29th and end Friday April 2nd. All meetings will take place on Fridays at 3pm Eastern time and will require the Zoom registration link to join which will stay the same for each week. Every week a different speaker from a different type of initiative in Haiti will speak for 20-25 minutes in Haitian Creole about their program, followed by a 10-minute question and answer period. Speakers will be from all areas including non-profits, businesses, research and various other sectors. The second half an hour of the meeting will be friendly conversation between the group participants. The group welcomes anyone with an interest in speaking Haitian Creole. Please contact Amanda Brinton at ab86@ufl.edu with any questions.

Speaker Bio: In 1992 Jean founded Haiti’s first coastal and marine environmental non-profit, the Foundation for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity (FoProBiM) and retains his position at the head of the organization. As the Executive Director of FoProBiM he specializes in coastal and marine sciences, environmental monitoring and management, and community development.

Zoom registration