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- Dr. William Kennedy Smith, Founder and Chairman of the CIR
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  Monica Bartley, Jamaica
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Monica Bartley is the vice chairperson excelsior of the High School Past Students Association, the vice chair for the Jamaica Coalition on Disability Committee, a member of the National Advisory Council on Disability, and a member of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA). A wheelchair user, Monica is the director of administrative statistics at the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN).

She has a degree from University of the West Indies, certificates from the U.S Bureau of Census International Statistical Programs and the Center of Economic Statistics, and a master degree in Economics and Statistics from the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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