EP #102 - COVID-19 in Haiti

Today, a discussion of COVID-19 in Haiti and the Caribbean with Franciscka Lucien and Mimi Sheller.

FRANCISCKA LUCIEN joined the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti as Executive Director in July 2019. She is a committed advocate for social justice, and an experienced international development professional skilled in strategic management, fundraising, communications and advocacy. Her work focuses on the intersection of equity, health, and a rights-based approach to development. She served as Deputy Director of Policy and Partnerships for Partners In Health (PIH) in Liberia, coordinating with under-served communities, non-governmental organizations, the Ministry of Health, and international organizations to improve delivery of critical health services in the wake of Liberia’s Ebola epidemic. She worked extensively in Haiti, leading key projects to strengthen public delivery systems for health care, and implementing the human right to health for rural, marginalized communities. She holds an M.A. from the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and a Bachelor of Science from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Mimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University in Philadelphia. She is founding co-editor of the journal Mobilities, associate editor of the journal Transfers, and past President of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility.  Her books include Island Futures: Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene (out in Fall 2020 from Duke University Press); Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (Verso, 2018); Aluminum Dreams (MIT Press, 2014); Citizenship from Below (2012); Consuming the Caribbean (2003); and Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica (Macmillan Caribbean, 2000).