Robert Carr

Robert has served on the Legal Network's Board of Directors since 2004.

He is a senior lecturer and director of the graduate program at the Caribbean Institute of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica.

Trained in social work and management, Robert has worked previously as a counsellor, trainer and program manager for numerous AIDS programs and services in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Caribbean. As executive director of Jamaica AIDS Support (JAS), Jamaica's largest AIDS service organization, he provided education, care and support, and policy advocacy to sex workers, prisoners and young people. He was also responsible for groundbreaking work on homophobia and other forms of HIV/AIDS-related stigma and discrimination.

Robert is a co-founder of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, a regional group representing populations vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.