Sarah-Anne Gresham
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Sarah-Anne Gresham is the Co-founder and Director of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda, where she also serves as editor, and a doctoral candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. She also served a 3-year term representing Intersect and speaking to the Caribbean context as a Board Director at the global feminist fund, The Equality Fund.
Sarah is the author of “Black Bodies at Play: Race and Gender at the Edges of Subjectivity,” published in Mechademia, for the University of Minnesota Press, and the forthcoming chapter, “Traveling Theory: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectionality” in the Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean.
From 2016 to 2018, she was the research officer in residence at the Directorate of Gender Affairs in Antigua. In this capacity, she produced internal reports on gender-based and sexual violence, organized and provided managerial oversight for Antigua’s first national gender-based violence forum, provided gender-responsive training for climate disaster shelter managers in collaboration with UNFPA, and edited Antigua and Barbuda’s 2015 CEDAW report.
Sarah was the 2020 Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Distinguished Scholar at George Washington University, where she completed a Master of Arts degree in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies under a Fulbright scholarship. During her studies at GWU, she was the 2019-2020 recipient of the Ruth Helm Osborn Research Fellowship, the Service to the Community of Women Award, the Emily B. Proctor Research Award, the Graduate Prize for Feminist Scholarship, among other accolades.
She received a multi-year grant from the Women’s Voice and Leadership – Caribbean program, solidarity grants from the Black Feminist Fund and Global Fund for Women, and a CAISO-Astraea responsive grant, to support the work of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda.
She was a finalist for the 2024 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship and a recipient of the 2025 Hosei International Scholars Fellowship at Hosei University, Tokyo, where she conducted field research and delivered lectures on transnational formations of race, gender, and sexuality in cosplay and anime for her PhD thesis.
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys ballet, anime, and taking pictures of her books.
