Full Name
Ms. Sharon Mottley
Job Title
Deputy Executive Director
Company
FPATT
Bio
When ask about that drives her professionally, personally, and particularly as an activist/advocate Sharon Mottley, responds with one word, PASSION. Sharon is well known for her assertive personality and loud voice which she frequently utilizes in her lifelong commitment to ensuring equality and equity for the disadvantaged and marginalized. She began her professional career in the early 90s at the National Urban League (NUL), a social and civil rights organization headquartered in New York City and has enjoyed an exciting and diverse professional career working in both the private and NGO sectors. In the USA, she also worked at Goldman Sachs and Greenberg Traurig LLP. In Trinidad and Tobago she held executive positions at Ventrin Petroleum Company Limited and CCNAPC. She was instrumental in the coordination of bio-behavioural surveillance studies aimed at ensuring that the health care needs of key populations were adequately addressed within the public health care system. In her current role as Deputy Executive Director at the Family Planning Association she continues to work towards ensuring that all persons have access to quality sexual and reproductive health.
As a lifelong advocate and human rights activist, Sharon sat on the Board of the Coalition Advocating for the Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO) from 2010 until 2017. In June 2010, Sharon and a small group of women met at her office in Port of Spain to dialogue about their dreams, hopes and expectations for women who love women (WLW) in Trinidad and Tobago. Recognizing the importance of building community and forming an entity through which the voices of women who love women could effectively be strengthened and heard, in 2012, the Women’s Caucus of Trinidad and Tobago became the first registered NGO with the specific mandate to provide safe spaces and networking opportunities to lesbian and bisexual women. Over the years, the WCTT has built and fostered alliances both within the wider LGBTQI community, as well as engaged and strengthened relationships with academia, civil, and corporate Trinidad and Tobago.
As a lifelong advocate and human rights activist, Sharon sat on the Board of the Coalition Advocating for the Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO) from 2010 until 2017. In June 2010, Sharon and a small group of women met at her office in Port of Spain to dialogue about their dreams, hopes and expectations for women who love women (WLW) in Trinidad and Tobago. Recognizing the importance of building community and forming an entity through which the voices of women who love women could effectively be strengthened and heard, in 2012, the Women’s Caucus of Trinidad and Tobago became the first registered NGO with the specific mandate to provide safe spaces and networking opportunities to lesbian and bisexual women. Over the years, the WCTT has built and fostered alliances both within the wider LGBTQI community, as well as engaged and strengthened relationships with academia, civil, and corporate Trinidad and Tobago.
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