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KIRAN MAHARAJ
Kiran Maharaj is President and Co-Founder of the Media Institute of the Caribbean. She is a Past President of the Trinidad & Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) and is also Managing Director of Caribbean Lifestyle Communications in Trinidad and Tobago. In that capacity, she founded Heartbeat Radio 104.1 FM, the world's first radio station for women. Among her academic and professional qualifications are undergraduate degrees in Literature, Journalism, and Business Administration and Marketing. She also holds certificates from the Harvard Business School in Effective Media Strategy and The Business of Entertainment Media and Sports; and NYU in Events Marketing and Management. Kiran has also benefited from a Fellowship in Broadcast Leadership and Management from the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington DC. In April 2019, she was a Women of Courage awardee by the United States Embassy in Port of Spain. In 2017 she wrote and produced the documentary Paradise in Peril documenting the situations in Dominica, Antigua & Barbuda after hurricanes Irma and Maria.
She is co-author and lead researcher of UNESCO’s Media Viability Indicators global pilot study (Jamaica) and has led several other research initiatives on the media landscape of the Caribbean.
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