​Tirshatha is the Founder, CEO, and Lead Consultant of Jot and Tittle. A life-long logophile, she is also a linguist, educator, writer, and public speaker with a passion for language and learning. She lectures in Linguistics at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and has tutored in English and writing for several years.

For over a decade, Tirshatha has provided writing services to clients in the Caribbean, South America, the USA, the UK, and Germany and has a reputation for producing high-quality results. 

In 2020, Tirshatha was chosen by the US Embassy Bridgetown to represent Barbados in the Women's Entrepreneurship in the Americas (WEAmericas) initiative, a US Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP). She was also the female CARICOM Youth Ambassador for Barbados from 2018-2020.

Tirshatha received a BA in Linguistics from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill in 2013 and completed an MSc in Forensic Linguistics from Aston University in Birmingham, England in January 2019. She began her PhD in Linguistics in January 2021.

In her spare time, she likes to read and watch documentaries and cheesy Christmas movies. Tirshatha is also a doting mom.

Chloe is a Rhodes Scholar, educator, and education specialist with an eclectic portfolio of international experience in teaching, mentorship, administration, and policy. 

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Chloe read for a DPhil (PhD) in Education at The University of Oxford, where she focused on contract cheating and youth unemployment in higher education. Prior to that, she completed an MPhil in Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, and an MSc in African Studies at Oxford University. For her undergraduate degree, she pursued a BA in Literary Studies and African studies at the University of Toronto. 

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Chloe joined the University of the West Indies in 2017, teaching on the Fundamentals of Written English course for one semester before joining the Academic Literacies Programme, which she currently coordinates.  

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Chloe is a published author and NIFCA award-winning poet.

Dr. Jacinth Howard holds a PhD in Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Originally hailing from the island of St. Vincent, she enjoys making authentic connections, blogging, cooking, exercise, close reading, copy-editing, the arts and a good theological read. She is a writer of prose, poetry and drama, who has published in several academic journals and magazines, regionally and internationally.

 

Jacinth holds a first-class-honours bachelor’s degree in Literatures in English with Education. She currently divides her time between teaching at Cave Hill and at BTBE. She is concurrently working on more creative and critical publications which focus on speculative fiction and afrofuturism.

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In February 2021, Jacinth received the second-place prize at the 23rd Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Awards for her poetry collection, The Mother Island.

 

She lives in Barbados with her husband and young son.

Asan Hoyte is an avid linguist-in-training with an interest in language and languages. He completed his undergraduate studies at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus with a BA (Hons) in Spanish with Linguistics in 2013. Following this, from 2017 to 2019 he pursued and completed his Master's degree in Theoretical and Experimental Linguistics at the Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain.

 

In addition to these academic pursuits, over the last six years, Asan has taught at various educational levels in Barbados and was a former foreign language teaching assistant at the Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander in Colombia.

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He is currently pursuing a PhD in Linguistics from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill.

Kristal-Lynn Best is a tutor, public speaker and language enthusiast with a passion for empowering others through education. She is an ESL instructor at the Centre for English Language Learning (UWI, Cave Hill). Her keen interest in English language teaching developed while she was completing her Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, leading her to become a student volunteer on the Centre’s initial programme offerings. She currently delivers instruction in several language skills including written communication, grammar, oral presentation, and phonology.

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Kristal-Lynn received her initial certification from TESOL International Association (Virginia, USA). Further to this, Kristal-Lynn completed a course in Online Tutoring offered by the International House World Organisation in 2015. She then travelled one year later to Canada where she successfully completed the intensive Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA).

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Beyond her work in the classroom, Kristal-Lynn hosted panel discussions, “Spotlight” sessions and various teaching workshops to serve adolescents and teenagers in her neighbourhood. She is a former Sunday School teacher and past President of the Youth Department at a local religious assembly. In 2015, she pioneered a primary school reading programme within her community and served as the Programme Director for two years. Presently, she is an Administrator within the FFC Core Leadership team and is one of the hosts of the Woman2Woman online talk show.

 

Kristal-Lynn is also a devoted wife and family woman. When she’s not teaching or engaged in community service, you may find her spending time in nature and connecting with her loved ones. A collector of music, empty notebooks and stationery, Kristal-Lynn enjoys journaling and crafting melodies on guitar.