Mr. Chevy Eugene is an Educator, Consultant, and International Human Rights Activist. He was born and raised in Marchand Boulevard, Saint Lucia, and migrated to Canada in 2002, after completing his studies, at the Entrepot Secondary School.
Mr. Eugene has been named as one of the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) 100 Under 40, and as an Honoree, he has been invited to the annual MIPAD Recognition Week, September 30th – October 3rd, 2022, following the opening of 77th United Nations Annual General Assembly, in New York City.
The Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) 100 is a global civil society initiative, in support of the implementation for the International Decade for People of African Descent, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 68/237.
MIPAD publishes a unique global 100 list that identifies outstanding individuals of African descent worldwide, pairing those based in the Diaspora with their counterparts inside Africa, across four categories: Politics & Governance, Business & Entrepreneurship, Media & Culture, and Humanitarian & Religious and various themed editions.
Chevy is currently completing a Social Science Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded PhD, entitled “Decolonizing the Caribbean Reparations”, in the Social and Political Thought Program (SPTH), at York University, Canada, and is also a sessional lecturer, at the University of Toronto, where he teaches International Development Studies, Black Canadian Studies, and Caribbean Studies.
In 2015, Chevy represented Saint Lucia, in the Fifth UN Fellowship Program for People of African Descent, in Geneva, Switzerland. Upon completing the fellowship program, he worked with the Government of Saint Lucia, to launch the International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD), in Saint Lucia. In June 2016, Mr. Eugene was invited to Berlin, Germany, to work with the German Government, to launch the IDPAD. In September 2016, he was invited to UNESCO’s head office in Paris, to present on the Black Canadian and Caribbean people’s engagement with the IDPAD.
Additionally, he received the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean’s (CERLAC) Paavo and Aino Lukkari Human Rights Fellowship, and the Osgoode Hall Law School’s Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security Fellowship. As a fellow at the Centre for Reparations Research (CRR) in Jamaica, he developed a youth-led arts reparations Caribbean project, which some Caribbean Governments, NGOs, and grassroots activists have taken up to apply, in their respective territories.
As the Caribbean ambassador for the Pan-African Council (PAC), he leads a collective of entrepreneurs, business leaders, cultural ambassadors, Government actors, academics and activists, from the Anglophone, Francophone, Spanish and Dutch Caribbean, in the advancement of the Caribbean across sectors.
Mr. Eugene is also the Youth Affairs Director, for the Global African Congress (GAC). GAC is an international network of organizations formed after the 2001 World Conference Against Racism (WCAR). Part of his responsibility is to engage with youth in the African Diaspora, particularly in the Caribbean, on matters of redress. Mr. Eugene was part of GAC’s planning committee for the International Reparations Conference, which took place in August 2022, in collaboration with the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, Campus, and the Barbadian Government.
The Consulate General of Saint Lucia in Toronto would like to officially congratulate Chevy, on this outstanding accomplishment, and we wish him continued success, in all his future endeavours.
