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Jewel Amoah
Dr. Jewel Amoah is best known for her work as a human rights advocate and activist in Canada and Africa. Through her work as an attorney and academic, Dr. Amoah has focused on equality rights for women and children, intersectionality, and international human rights. For two decades, Dr. Amoah has facilitated organizational change with regard to harassment, discrimination, workplace equity and human rights. Research interests include Feminist Legal Theory, Critical Race Theory and Legal Pluralism. Developed by Dr. Amoah, GRACE is an analytical tool demonstrating how the intersection of gender, race, age and culture impact access to equality rights for girls subject to customary law in South Africa (researchgate.net.)

Career:
Presently, Dr. Amoah works as a Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad. Law and the Legal Systems, Advanced Constitutional Law, and Gender and the Law and Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions are her teaching areas. Dr. Amoah is also an Advisor for Doctoral Candidates at the Global Humanistic University in Curaco. Much of her career has centered around workplace equity, diversity and inclusion and creating a workplace environment free of all forms of harassment. Dr. Amoah has worked with the Peel District School Board in Mississauga, Ontario, the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Oakville, Ontario, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario and the Law School of Upper Canada in Toronto, Ontario focusing on these issues. In Africa, Dr. Amoah has worked to promote and protect human rights, gender equity and good governance with the UN Mission in Sierra Leone, the Centre for Rights and Rehabilitation in Malawi and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences in Nambia.

Education:
University of Cape Town Ph.D, Law 2006-2016 Dissertation: “Constructing Equality:  Developing An Intersectionality Analysis To Achieve Equality For The Girl Child Subject To South African Customary Law”

University of Cape Town LL.M, International Public Law 2004-2005

University of Ottawa LL.B, English Common Law 1993-1996

McMaster University B.A., English and Political Science 1988-1992

Publications:
"Watch GRACE Grow: African Customary Law and Constitutional Law in the Garden of Equality", in Feminist Constitutionalism: Global Perspectives, Baines et al eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) at 357-376.

"Religion vs. Culture: Striking the Right Balance in the Context of Traditional African Religions in the New South Africa", in Traditional African Religions in South African Law, TW Bennett, ed. (Cape Town: UCT Press, 2011) at pp. 37-62.

"The Freedoms of Religion and Culture under the South African Constitution: Do Traditional African Religions Enjoy Equal Treatment?" (co-authored with Tom Bennett) (2008-2009) 24 Journal of Law and Religion pp. 1-20; also at: (2008) 8 African Human Rights Law Journal 357-375.

"At the Crossroads of Equality: The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Intersecting Identities of GRACE, An African Girl Child", in Proceedings of the Conference on the International Rights of the Child, Collins et al., eds. (Montreal: Wilson & Lafleur, 2008) at pp. 313-337.

"Building Sandcastles in the Snow: Meanings and Misconceptions of the Development of Black Feminist Theory in Canada" in Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought, Notisha Massaquoi and Njoki Wane, eds., (Toronto: Inanna Press, 2007) at pp. 95-118.

"The World on Her Shoulders: The Rights of The Girl-Child in the Context of Culture and Identity" (2007) 4 Essex Human Rights Review 1. Mendes, Errol. Racial Discrimination Law and Practice, (Carswell: Toronto, 1999 – Release 1 Updates) "Back on the Auction Block: A Discussion of Black Women and Pornography" (1997) 14 National Black Law Journal 204.

"Narrative: The Road to Black Feminist Theory", (1997) 12 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 84.