Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator and activist. He is from Trinidad and Tobago and currently works in Helsinki, Finland. His public leadership and research amplify the youth-child-gender equality nexus of development, decolonial urbanism, and literary publics in social change. He promotes co-imagining and co-creation of development in the Caribbean and Americas region.
Sanatan is the recipient of several professional and social leadership awards for his service to under-resourced communities in the region. He promotes democratic, sustainable and grounded approaches to national, regional and global development. Sanatan co-edited two special issues in academic journals on Caribbean gender and cultural studies. He holds a BSc. Psychology and MPhil. Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of the West Indies. He is a PhD student in Cultural Studies in the same institution.
