Background
Hemmings-Gapihan, Grace Salome was born on February 21, 1949 in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica. Daughter of Henry Augustus and Carmen Rebeca Hemmings.
Hemmings-Gapihan, Grace Salome was born on February 21, 1949 in Port Antonio, Portland, Jamaica. Daughter of Henry Augustus and Carmen Rebeca Hemmings.
Bachelor, Brandeis University, 1970. Postgraduate, University Paris, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy in Economic Anthropology, Yale University, 1985.
Master of Public Health in Society and Cultural Anthropology, Yale University, 1985.
Social mobilisation officer United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Ribeira Grande, Cape Verde, 1986—1988, Expanded Immunization Program United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, 1989—1991. Coordinator Principal Women in Development African Development Bank, 1992—1995. Senior specialist Women Workers and Gender Questions International Labour Organization, since 1997.
International consultant gender and rural development United Nations Agency, Dakar, Senegal, 1982—1986. International consultant gender and poverty International Bank Reconstruction and Development, Abidjan, 1995—1997.
Member drafting committee for African platform for action for special session United Nations General Assembly on Beijing International Labour Organization, Abidjan, 1997—2000. Member of Association Black Antrhopologists, Association African Anthropologists, Association American Anthropologists, American Anthropological Association (life).
Married Jean-Yves Eugene Marie Gapihan, November 11, 1978. Children: Alexandra Gapihan, Alexandre Gapihan.