Kamala Kempadoo is a British-Guyanese[1] author and sociology professor who lives in Barbados and Canada.
She has written multiple books about sex work and human trafficking and won awards from the Caribbean Studies Association and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality for her distinguished and lifetime achievements.
[2] At York University, she has held academic appointments in social science, political science; gender, feminist and women’s studies; social and political thought; and development studies.
[2] Kempadoo has had academic affiliations with the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies.
[7] Kempadoo has previously lived in the UK, Netherlands, United States, and throughout the Caribbean.