Kamala Kempadoo is Professor in the Department of Social Science, affiliated with Latin American and Caribbean Studies and with graduate programs in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies, Political Science, Social and Political Thought, and Development Studies. She is a former director of the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University. She has lived and worked in Britain, the Netherlands, the USA, several countries in the Dutch- and English-speaking Caribbean, and, since 2002, in Canada.

Professor Kempadoo teaches courses in Caribbean studies, Caribbean and transnational feminisms, sex work studies, Black Studies, and critical anti-trafficking studies. She has published widely and speaks regularly at international events.