amílcar peter sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator, and activist from Trinidad and Tobago, currently working between East Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Helsinki, Finland. His work and public leadership focus on the youth-child-gender equality nexus in development, decolonial urbanism, and the role of literary publics in social change. He champions co-imagined and co-created approaches to development across the Caribbean and Americas.
Recognised for his service to communities in the margins, sanatan has received multiple professional and social leadership awards. He advocates for democratic, sustainable, and community-driven solutions for local, regional, and global development. sanatan has authored two poetry chapbooks, co-edited two special journal issues on Caribbean gender and cultural studies, and been the recipient of numerous academic and artistic fellowships. He is pursuing a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
sanatan has performed, read, facilitated workshops and delivered lectures across the Caribbean and Americas region and Europe. He enjoys platforming voices and has hosted open mics, co-produced podcast and television series, and interviewed several public figures including Canisia Lubrin, Chronixx, Earl Lovelace, Freetown Collective, Machel Montano, Protoje and Olive Senior, among others.