Tenesha Myrie

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Tenesha
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Myrie
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OutRight Action International
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Tenesha Myrie is Outright’s Caribbean Advocacy Officer based in Jamaica. Tenesha is a human rights lawyer with over ten years’ experience working on issues concerned with gender equality, LGBTIQ rights protection, HIV and AIDS, gender-based violence, child rights, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her work centers on legal and policy reform with a focus on strengthening legal protection and improving access to services for groups in a position of vulnerability. In this regard, she has provided expert opinion to the Government of Jamaica, has consulted for UN Women, UNDP, USAID, Child Rights International Network (CRIN), as well as regional and local NGOs such as Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, Jamaica AIDS Support for Life, Jamaicans for Justice, and others. She has also worked with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. as a legal fellow. She is a former corporate and property lawyer.

Tenesha holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford and has been recognized as a Researcher for Development by the University of West Indies. 

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Caribbean Advocacy Officer