Overview
Work History
Education
Mailingaddress
Languages
Community Service
References
Hobbies and Interests
Honorsandawards
Academiccoursesandpresentations
Timeline
Generic

Kristin Jared Watkins

St. Michael,Barbados

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Tour Guide

St. Nicholas Abbey and Railway
09.2024 - Current
  • Working as a tour guide, providing tours of the historic plantation and its distillery

Tour Guide

Chattel House Audio Tours
08.2022 - 09.2024
  • I worked as a tour guide providing walking tours around Barbados (Historic Bridgetown, Garrison Historic Area and Speightstown) to guests both locally, regionally, and internationally

Junior Curator

Barbados Museum and Historical Society
07.2018 - 08.2018
  • I was a part of the museum’s summer Junior Curator Program
  • I learned various skills, among them being: object handling, tour guiding- general principles, basic research methods, guidelines and principles of customer service, basic principles of collections management, 3D Photogrammetry, Traditional toy-making and the basic principles of fieldwork and laboratory analysis for archaeology

Education

BA - History and Philosophy

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus
07.2018

AA - Humanities

Combermere School
07.2015

Mailingaddress

Kirton Road, Delamere Land, St. Michael, Barbados, BB11115

Languages

English, Native Language

Community Service

  • Young Women’s Christian Association, Volunteer Teacher at Reading Club, 09/01/17, 2019
  • Future Centre Trust, Volunteer, 03/01/14, 2017

References

Available upon request.

Hobbies and Interests

  • Practitioner in SWC-Ryu/Sanuces Jujitsu
  • Avid reader
  • Writer/essayist

Honorsandawards

  • National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Bronze Award, 12/01/17, For the essay 'Schools and Restorative Justice'.
  • UWI Cave Hill 2017 Humanities and Education Level 2 Book Prize for Philosophy, 10/01/17, Faculty Prizes awarded to the students with the best overall results on completion of Levels II and III of the degree program.
  • Barbados Association of Bermuda Scholarship, 04/01/17, A scholarship valid for one year, awarded to nationals of Barbados who have completed Level 1 of their degree. Valued at BDS$6,000.00.
  • Government Bursary, 05/01/16, Valued at $2,500. Given to those students in need of financial assistance.

Academiccoursesandpresentations

UWI Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) 2019, CONVERSATIONS XIV - Medicine, Technology, Ethics, A Disabilities Critique of Transhumanism

Timeline

Tour Guide

St. Nicholas Abbey and Railway
09.2024 - Current

Tour Guide

Chattel House Audio Tours
08.2022 - 09.2024

Junior Curator

Barbados Museum and Historical Society
07.2018 - 08.2018

BA - History and Philosophy

University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus

AA - Humanities

Combermere School
Kristin Jared Watkins